Meskin and Umezo - Austin English - 50 Watts

Meskin and Umezo by Austin English / 9 x 12 inch paperback, offset color printing, 2nd edition forthcoming in 2025 from 50 Watts Books *** Two friends meet each other every week, in an attempt to pay lip service to some minimal form of communication, with wildly varying degrees of importance to either of them. On one particular meeting, a series of statements leads them to a pivotal idea. Images repeat and duplicate themselves, as do phrases and conversational contradiction, spiraling inward to an inevitable cruel (though markedly uncynical) center. Praise for Austin English's previous books Gulag Casual and Tanti Affetti: "Recalling the grotesque oil paintings of Claus Castenskiold...English’s use of colored pencils is distinctly smudgy and grimy, while his attacks on perspective, sometimes aided by collaged insertions of additional material drawn by the artist, untether us from the picture plane." -Matt Sussman, Art in America "Strangers, creeps, and loners stalk the pages of English