Co-published by RITE Editions, San Francisco, Altman-Siegel Gallery, San Francisco and On Stellar Rays, New York City. 2015.
Special edition artist's book. Full color, clay pigment printed.
Text by Bruno Tollon and an essay by Rabih Alameddine.
Hardcover. Stitch bound. Limited edition of 45 and 5 APs. Signed, dated and numbered. 11 × 9"
"TOOLS ARE AGELESS AND CAN ALWAYS BE OF USE"
"They each have a life and history of their own. Seeing them again calls to mind images, gestures, and use. For each one there is a story…"
Drawings by Everett trace and layer the forms of outdated hand tools, found by the artist in a studio outside Toulouse, France. Rust marks mix and stain the brittle sheets of a 60 year-old watercolor block found amongst the tools, leaving indexical fragments of now-obsolete utility, pushed to the point of abstraction. Images are presented alongside texts by Bruno Tollon-describing the history and purpose of the tools-and prose by Rabih Alameddine.