Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration Some writers hope that by

Some writers hope that by returning these stolen rocks

the streets have been renamed with body parts

we appear to be stuck somewhere between outrageous production and excessive preservation

As a child during the Second World War the artist experienced the US air attacks on Tokyo and these became important motifs in his art: roaring American bombers

In Responding to Particular Needs at a Precise Moment photographer Jonas von Lenthe examines the architecture of the Albanian capital

Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects illustration Some writers hope that byIts no mistake that Lenard Smiths new book borrows its title from Susan Sontags 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects the Los Angeles based artists first publication for Perimeter Editions grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the