passing world pictures
Swift and rich, an entire world passes here in vivid glimpses. Loosely based on Japanese tourist manuals from the 1930s, these minimalist distillations are flavored with an ambient exoticism that never quite adds up to any real place on the map; instead, they create one on the page, rooted in tight sounds and starling juxtapositions. “Tiny altars/salt and pepper”– Coulton’s ear and eye are deft at picking out the other within us and dazzling us with its flares. – Cole Swensen