Peter Maloney

‘Fugitive Text’ draws together photographic diptychs and triptychs made since the mid-1990s in response to the artist’s experience of love, desire and loss through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It incorporates photographs taken in-camera as well as images drawn from a variety of sources, including vintage photographs found in flea markets and images re-photographed from pornography and popular culture.

The images draw on Peter Maloney’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic (as an HIV-positive person who lost much of their social group during the 1980s and early 1990s) and on photography’s specific relationship to memory, time and place, and testimony. Combined with scraps of text, the images become memory fragments. The memories suggested by these works are those of someone remembering love and loss – friends and lovers lost to HIV/AIDS, and also the moments of desire, risk and sensation that in a way mark the queer experience of time and space.… (mere)

A very creative concept book teaching young children to count from 1 to 10. The book also teaches uncommon plural form of nouns: 1 goose, 5 geese. The art is strategic such that it does not overwhelm. As the book count up, the style follows: 1, 2; 1, 3; 1, 4, etc... On each "1" page, the page is a solid bright color, with a square cutout to highlight and focus on the particular example. Turn the page and the reader sees the other animals in that cohort. On the opposite page, the author keeps tabs of which numbers has already been counted. The redundancy makes learning to count easy to remember. This style is very similar to the "12 days of Christmas" song. The back endpages summarize the whole book in one number line.… (mere)