Join us this Leap Year night to celebrate the release of “Zen Psychosis,” a novella by Shana Nys Dambrot with photographs by Osceola Refetoff. Pinhole images from the book will be on exhibit, with hardcover, first edition copies from Griffith Moon Publishing available for purchase and signing.
The artist talk will begin at approximately 7PM.
Poet Milo Martin wrote of the book: “The new novella by Shana Nys Dambrot, “Zen Psychosis” is so serpentine sandy dreamy hyper-romantic Anais Nin naked Joan Didion kissing Henry Miller… not to mention the lush pinhole camera photographs by Osceola Refetoff…”
The book is published by Griffith Moon, and on their website Shana says, “Zen Psychosis is a work of experimental fiction: the attempt to construct a personal memoir culled not from diaries, but dreams. In a way, as the scenes are taken from my own journals, this book is not fiction at all; the dreams are real, their meanings form a story. As a critic of art and an amateur student of Jungian psychoanalysis, I am often compelled to decode intuitive, inscrutable symbols and assemble meaning from the clues the dream or the artist leaves behind. In this novel, I’m applying the technique to my own inner self.”
The accompaniment of fantastical pinhole photographs by Osceola Refetoff augments and expands on this dynamic; bringing a beguiling dreamlike quality to what are in fact, people and places in the real world outside ourselves. As an artist and student of cinema, Refetoff has long been fascinated with the conventional visual language of what dreams are supposed to look like.
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