A Walk on Cape Cod

A Walk on Cape Cod gathers the writing of Eileen Myles and photographs of Cole Barash on the occasion of their 32 mile walks along the Cape Cod shoreline, 170 years after Thoreau did it and wrote about it and though like him they chronicle the flora fauna shoreline ocean people dogs ghosts thoughts feelings sand collapsing houses sculptures wonder pain sound color etc. Cole and Eileen's versions are something oblique to his and less linear, less singular, granular or more like a palimpsest and with depth like that, like sediment, dissembling, grains of sand, fog, photographic grain, grain from the Riso, bark fibers in the paper, trees already the paper, wood covers…