Cig Harvey’s fourth monograph celebrates the sacred and the profane in lush, glossy, saturated color. In a hefty book of french-fold pages chronicles in image and text, Harvey’s courageous exploration of visual storytelling in form and narrative. Utilizing the medium of photography to illuminate the quotidian, Harvey reflects our human paradox, the unbearable lightness of being.

In this book group, Cig Harvey discusses, among other things:

The camera as a ouija board

The subconsciousness of sequencing

Living with senses wide open everyday

Color as subject

Photographing with a point of view

Flowers as healing agents and as reflecting the ephemeral nature of life

The push and pull of a strong image

Knowing the seasons of your own creative clock

Referenced in the episode

Cig’s Books:

You Look At Me Like An Emergency

You An Orchestra You A Bomb

Gardening At Night

Joyful - by Ingrid Lee 

Interactions of Color - by Josef Albers

Modern Nature - by Derek Jarman

Wednesday is Indigo Blue - by Cytowic and Eagleman

The History of Bees - by Maja Lunde

InHarmonicity, The Tonal Walkway - by Julianne Swartz

Do Walk - Navigate, Earth, Mind and Body - by Libby DeLana

*Wildgeese - by Mary Oliver

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