This is a story of missing narratives.
Down on the Farm celebrates the pure idyllic life of rural America. This project aims to reposition a book that introduces the various aspects of happy life on the farm.
This delightful narrative is interrupted from the south by an uninvited parallel story. A narrative that is much less pretty and much more crude.
Somewhere between the lines we can witness a complex story unveiling. One told, or untold by different perspectives and viewed in different lights. We are used to hear always one distilled side of this problem, but I think it is important to observe both.
The top half of the book is based on Down on the Farm, A picture treasury of country life in America in the good old days, 1954. It uses the entire text of the original book.
The second book is made up from a compilation of articles, essays, lyrics, that – in my view – conceptually connect to the top narrative. The imagery is curated from several sources in order to best match the written content.
