Flim Forum Press

"In James Belflower’s and Matthew Klane’s Canyons, image and text combine in a powerful, profound reimagining of 'Manifest Destiny' and its virulent consequences. The fragmented lines and images of tangled topographical maps create a landscape through which 'the mind clamors for answers.' But there are no answersthere is no coherent mapping possible for the land become 'trinket store.' In its white space dwarfing the words on each page, Canyons gestures toward the ultimate preeminence of the natural world, which dwarfs man’s futile attempts to divide, conquer, and tame it. 'My voice / is lost / in the view,' one speaker claims, and that is as it should be." Laura Sims

This week, Thursday, in the Bay Area.

Today in Chicago.

Internet note: next week @ Switch in Portland, flimmer jk, Jennifer Karmin will read w/ A.M. O'Malley.