NICK RELPH / Monsters

Nick Relph
Monsters, 2022
Softcover, 500 pages
31 x 26.7cm
Pre-Echo Press

MONSTERS serves as a tangential addendum to Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax (published by Pre–Echo in Fall 2021). Using the same scanning process, Relph gathered over a thousand images between New York and Los Angeles of telephone enclosures; not to be confused with telephone booths.

In contrast to the Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax pictures, these have some degree of uniformity, though there are some digital artifacts and surface interruptions: paper, stickers, paint, rust, rainwater, a hologram, reflective vinyl, screws, ketchup, plants, bird shit, electrical cable.