Based in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire.
Sam Batley
Details
44 Pages with Wraparound Cover and Text by the Artist
Risograph Printed in Black & Metallic Gold
105 x 235mm
Softcover
December, 2024
£16 + Postage
- Point of Non-existence is inspired by the transition, traditions and acts of masculinity that take place as a teen;
“You don’t get to pass from one state of being to the next without the ritual of trial and tribulation. Adolescence pangs with tests subjective to a whole host of variables. Grounded in the past, tied to landscape and social conditions of the environment marked by the previous men that walked the plank as a boy, to jump repeatedly into being a man.
Like an insecure caterpillar trying so hard to shed its exterior only to reveal yet another exterior. Discomfort makes or breaks you. It is the thing that underpins the pursuit of trying to shed it, will you? or won’t you?
Jump or don’t jump, no one’s arsed.”