Get David Byrne's Arboretum (a collection of drawings and diagrams mapping the strange corners of Byrne's mental landscape) and The New Sins (first time in paperback, with 8 percent more sin) together for just $30!
ARBORETUM:
For over twenty-five years, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as disco, architectural photography, and PowerPoint. Now he presents what may be his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings and diagrams mapping the strange corners of his mental landscape. It’s an eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, satire, and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist—a sort of self-therapy, allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic, it’s sometimes called. The application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises. To proceed, carefully and deliberately, from nonsense, with a straight face, often arriving at a new kind of sense. The world keeps opening up, unfolding, and just when we expect it to be closed—to be a sealed, sensible box—it shows us something completely surprising. Byrne’s enigmatic, enchanting collection teaches us that there is absolutely no reason to discount anything, of any type, anywhere.
THE NEW SINS:
Byrne, known as the lead singer of the Talking Heads, and later as a solo artist, author, photographer, and film director, has written a book that updates and alters the Bible's cardinal sins for a more contemporary audience. His book began as a project undertaken for the Valencia Spain Bienal, which asked artists to address the idea of sin.
Byrne wanted the book to be about the size and shape of a portable Bible, and thus The New Sins resembles the sort of book a strange person in a robe would try to give you in an airport. The New Sins is bizarre and profound, and includes eighty color photographs taken by the author.
