Fatemeh Burnes: Drift

FATEMEH BURNES drift This book is a dream, writes Peter Frank in his essay to Fatemeh Burnes drift ... of sorts. Its moments are real, but its course is fantastical. Burnes, accomplished as both painter and photographer, went out into the world to look, and came back into the studio with more than she expected. Rather than merely peer at things, Burnes got involved with them, both with their lonely, offhand beauty and with the poignancy of their human resonance. Without sacrificing the integrity of the individual pictures, Burnes organized them or found them organizing themselves into a sprawling, swooping narrative, one that flits from page to page even as it soars in the mind. Drift is a freewheeling exploration of both nature and human nature, at once a gorgeous book object and a compelling jump into the universe.