So thankful to @dbunns for his hard work in putting this show together showcasing Fil-Am artists in Austin. It was great to be amongst such a talented group.
Gallery: @bolm_arts
đź“š The Sweet Smell of Burnt Gasoline Brings Me Home
📸 Chester A. Rivera
Longing for something missing… missing something left behind.
A sense of home has eluded me since coming to America as a child. I am stuck in a place of the in-between… belonging to somewhere and nowhere at the same time.
Two and a half years ago, I found myself on a plane headed for Cuba. Most of my fellow passengers were coming home as evidenced by the exuberant celebration when we touched down.
Cuba should have been as foreign to me as America, yet the whiff of burnt gasoline brought me back home to the Philippines. My former home, a place I revisited 15 years prior. I wandered around Havana with a trigger finger, photographing everything from the gut.
After a few days, the feeling of home soon faded. The familiarity of the place isn’t enough to bring me all the way back. Just like the other passengers who are now only visiting, our persistent longing continues.
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The Sweet Smell of Burnt Gasoline Brings Me Home
📸 by Chester A. Rivera
8.5 x 5.5 inches
136 pages
110 Images on đź’Ż% Sugar Cane paper
Handsewn Pamphlet Stitch Binding with Hardcover
Edition of đź’Ż
*All Printed & Handmade in Austin, Texas
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Limited Edition of 5
$95 (book 📕➕ one 8”x10” Archival Pigment Print)
New Year’s Eve Santa Rita Courts
đź“· by Chester A. Rivera
12” x 12” Handmade artist book
23 Handtipped plates
All images are pigment printed on archival paper
Signed and Numbered
Last year, the city of Austin closed the very first public housing project completed under the US Housing Act of 1937. Santa Rita Courts was one of three segregated housing projects in Austin, TX. Rosewood Courts for black families, Chalmers Courts for whites and SRC for Mexican families.
Residents were given until the end of the year to pack up and leave.
TERMINAL PHASE (noun)
• Definition: It is the period of rapid decline when someone is “actively dying,” where there is no prospect of recovery.
• Definition: The missile terminal phase is the final, rapid stage of a ballistic trajectory where the warhead reenters the atmosphere and descends toward the target
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TERMINAL PHASE
📸 by Chester A. Rivera
6 x 9 inches
48 pages total
28 images on satin coated paper
Saddle stitch binding
Custom artwork cover
By Joana Orozco @tintaytierrastudio
