Paperback, perfect bound, printed by Conveyor Editions
Dimensions: 5.5 × 9 × 1.5 inches
494 pages, full color
Paper: 80# Uncoated Ultra White (Smooth), 100# Uncoated
Edition of 5
Gioppino the hamster runs clockwise and counterclockwise on the wheel. This book is a prototype, or “dummy,” for a project I developed on perpetual motion machines in homage to my Swiss countryman Jean Tinguely, the master of “perpetual” motion devices—always in motion, but never truly perpetual. His most famous creation was a self-destructive mechanism that blew apart in the garden of MoMA.
Over time, I’ve experimented with ways to express the experience of living with invisible disabilities without falling into navel-gazing or self-pity.
The first experiment was a series of portraits of my friends Alp and Bryan, photographed as they rotated on a turntable and presented as a perpetual motion book.
The second was Digit, traces of gestures left by my finger on an iPad, where the finger became the storyteller.
Gioppino refines and synthesizes these ideas, mixing perpetual motion with storytelling. Perpetual motion, of course, is doomed to fail—my flip-book, a paper machine, comes to rest as soon as boredom sets in.
Freewheeling and joyous, Gioppino lightens the weight of struggle and joy, making the best of the worst.
Paperback, perfect bound, printed by Conveyor Editions
Dimensions: 5.5 × 9 × 1.5 inches
494 pages, full color
Paper: 80# Uncoated Ultra White (Smooth), 100# Uncoated
Edition of 5
Gioppino the hamster runs clockwise and counterclockwise on the wheel. This book is a prototype, or “dummy,” for a project I developed on perpetual motion machines in homage to my Swiss countryman Jean Tinguely, the master of “perpetual” motion devices—always in motion, but never truly perpetual. His most famous creation was a self-destructive mechanism that blew apart in the garden of MoMA.
Over time, I’ve experimented with ways to express the experience of living with invisible disabilities without falling into navel-gazing or self-pity.
The first experiment was a series of portraits of my friends Alp and Bryan, photographed as they rotated on a turntable and presented as a perpetual motion book.
The second was Digit, traces of gestures left by my finger on an iPad, where the finger became the storyteller.
Gioppino refines and synthesizes these ideas, mixing perpetual motion with storytelling. Perpetual motion, of course, is doomed to fail—my flip-book, a paper machine, comes to rest as soon as boredom sets in.
Freewheeling and joyous, Gioppino lightens the weight of struggle and joy, making the best of the worst.
