The Back of the Line is an innovative collaboration between writer Jeff Parker and artist William Powhida. Through four stories interwoven with images, The Back of the Line follows the plight of ornithophobic, cuckolding, leering, scooter-thieving, laundromat loving, peeing-while-sleepwalking James J. Wreck. The narration in the suspect, second-hand account of James's best friend sometimes agrees and sometimes conflicts with the documentary evidence of James's deeds, creating fissures in the story as each of the two men see it. Motivated alternately by revenge, jealousy, altruism, and obsession, they continually misread one another in a train wreck of egos and desires. In the end each must choose between a damaged relationship and the possibilities of a better one. Designed as a handwritten journal, The Back of the Line is the improbable diary of two fractured souls, a document of the narrative and visual detritus of their world.

The Back of the Line

Jeff Parker and William Powhida

Decode, Inc.

Doug Keyes's photographs investigate the ways that knowledge stacks upon itself over time, leaving an impression or ''collective memory.'' In his first monograph, Collective Memory, Keyes's luminous color images of books literally reveal and sometimes conceal this stacking by capturing through multiple exposure the experience of reading the book. The resulting single image is a condensed document of the experience, the ideas contained within, and the physical identity of the book itself. The books Keyes chooses to photograph from art books and works of fiction, to poetry books and books on scientific theory hold personal meaning or remembrance for him and become sites to revisit. Keyes's photographs in fact make visible the pleasure of leafing through a text and the memory of that experience. Includes essay by Sheryl Conkelton

Collective Memory

Arts & Photography

Doug Keyes

Photography & Video

Dressing

Ariana Page Russell

Milky

Steven Miller

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