In 2020, photographer Avital Oehler and writer Jesse Russell Brooks produced a publication titled let’s not, and say we did. This limited edition photo chapbook successfully raised funding to publish a larger work of photography & text.
The subject: Suburbia’s obsession with permanence.
The duo workshopped two years in preparation to produce a second print iteration. While examining potential modes of publication, an important developmental step emerged: The project must embrace a communal effort to genuinely understand the constructs of suburbia, its fears, sense of safety, and illusions of control.
The result is PERMASTATES.
PERMASTATES is a world created on a mountain of voices. In order to build and sustain this world, we call for the contributions of artists of all backgrounds and experience levels. Help us build the PERMASTATE: an artist-led biannual intricately crafted book object.
WHAT IS THE PERMASTATE TO YOU?
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