Excerpt from Project Series statement in the upcoming Mapping Issue:

Joy Drury Cox delicately weaves the fabric of her line through each page as she traces over her copy of the quintessential American novel, The Old Man and the Sea.  Honoring the original form, each tracing measures four inches by seven inches, the exact dimensions of her small paperback edition of the book.  Page numbers and periods are lifted from yellowed pages, transferred, and recontextualized on clean and crisp sheets of mylar.  

Using only Hemingway’s periods as a guide, Cox creates new patterns and possibilities for understanding language as she cuts through his passages of text with the line of her hand.  Extracted from their original context, elegant points are connected by neat lines that forge new relationships and challenge our grasp on the novel and the meaning of language itself.  Unforeseen visual patterns arise as the frequency in punctuation fluctuates; what was once prose gives way to long lines, and now-muted conversations produce an energetic zig-zag.

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One of our favorite things about Conveyor Magazine is that, by accepting free submissions from artists working in photography and print based media, we are exposed to a ton of new projects by very talented artists! We love the excitement of discovering new projects and using the magazine and exhibition as a way to circulate them to a larger public! 

For the upcoming Mapping Issue, we were so smitten with Joy Drury Cox’s ‘Old Man and the Sea” project that we decided to not only publish it as a Project Series in Conveyor Magazine, but also to turn it into an artist book and offer it as a reward for donating to our Kickstarter Project.

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