PAST THE POND, SETTING FIRES IS A TWO-TONE RISOGRAPH PRINTED CATALOG PUBLISHED ON OCCASION OF DYLAN HAUSTHOR’S PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOW AT SPEEDWELL PROJECTS OF THE SAME NAME.

You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country -- indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky -- provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that can not be heard but is felt, it is like a claw in the gut. 

Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere. No past slaughter nor cruelty, no accident nor murder that occurs on the little ranches or at the isolate crossroads with their bare populations of three or seventeen, or in the reckless trailer courts of mining towns delays the flood of morning light. Fences, cattle, roads, refineries, mines, gravel pits, traffic lights, graffiti'd celebration of athletic victory on bridge overpass, crust of blood on the Wal-Mart loading dock the sun faded wreaths of plastic flowers marking death on the highway are ephemeral. Other cultures have camped here a while and disappeared. Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that.

- Annie Proulx, People In Hell Just Want A Drink Of Water

TWO-TONE RISOGRAPH PRINTED 6.5” X 8” ON RECYCLED FRENCH PAPER

EACH COPY COMES IN A SCREENPRINTED ENVELOPE PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER WITH A POEM WRITTEN BY THE GREAT ANNIE PROULX.

ONE DOLLAR OF EACH SALE OF THIS CATALOG WILL GO TO THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE. AN ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO ENDING MASS INCARCERATION AND ABOLISHING THE DEATH PENALTY

This catalog is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts