Heaven is a Prison by Mark McKnight is an exploration of queer intimacy with and within the austere terrain of Southern California’s high desert. In a poetic sequence oscillating between the literal and the figurative, between violence and affection, a solitary pair of copulating protagonists appear both liberated and bound by their intimacies and the expanse in which they are depicted.
We connected McKnight's voyeuristic and expressive series through a book that requires physically ripping and penetrating it's sealed, printed cloud exterior. Inside, rippling sugar-paper pages chapterise McKnight's poetic stanzas of sexuality, landscape and spirituality.
Loose Joints Publishing, 2020
132 pages, 250 × 305 mm, 60 tritone plates
Silkscreened hardcover hand-wrapped inside printed paper
Edited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon at Loose Joints Studio
ISBN 978-1-912719-15-0
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