We've been around for over 16 years (!!), and have released thousands of editions. In such volume, one can pick up on parallels amongst art created across hundreds (thousands?) of years, which is a fun and unexpected dialogue between our collections of Vintage Editions and art by our contemporary artists. As Kamala says (has it been echoing in your head as it has in ours?), "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."
Meme aside, she's absolutely right. We don't exist in a vacuum—and we're the better for it!! There is lots to be learned, and a mysterious beauty to appreciate, in the differences + similarities between how people have viewed the world; that artists hundreds of years apart felt moved to document similar motifs; narratives that are picked up and built from. Everything happens because something already happened, and it's impossible to imagine it any other way.
And some things can't be—or don't need to be—explained. Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite (left, above) and Green Branches (right, above) were taken by Ansel Adams and Tod Seelie some 80 years apart, in different hemispheres, during different seasons. Of course one can begin analyzing the similarities in composition. Perhaps these species of sprawling tree are related. In the end, trees are trees and do look similar. But there's also a bit of magic in simply allowing these two images to coexist together. As an experiment, allow your mind to make these connections and find these threads. You never know what might come of it, and the narrative always continues.
Bi-coastal by Caitlin Parker
Macaroni and Similar Pastes, a 20x200Â Vintage Edition
