KORINE, Harmony and Christopher WOOL. Pass the Bitch Chicken.

(Berlin): Holzwarth Publications 2001.  First edition.  Folio.  Unpaginated.  A collaboration between the filmmaker Harmony Korine and the painter Christopher Wool, a series of experimental images that test the limits of the pictorial and the abstract, pushing the boundaries of visual and textual narrative to extremes. Korine’s photographs form the basis of an intense process of layering, drawing, overprinting and photocopying as each image is passed back and forth between the artists until the images are reduced to ghostly shadows beneath a barrage of scumbled dot-screens, random patterning and symbolic blurs and drips. Gradually the fragmented, distorted images serially mutate, attacked by a combination of mechanical and human processes, yet despite the violence exerted upon it, a vestige of narrative always survives.  A very good copy in printed wrappers with integral flaps.