This is a near new copy of the the Violet Isle, the long out-of-print book by the husband and wife team of Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb.

"So, in the spirit of a duet—with its point-counterpoint—we decided to weave our images together to create a multi-layered portrait of this ‘Violet Isle,’ a little known name for Cuba that is inspired by the rich color of its soil, this island in a bubble whose people and animals seem caught out of time, a place that’s engaging yet unsettling, a place that’s vibrant yet vulnerable, a place that—for better or worse—probably won’t exist as it is much longer."

—from “Two Looks,” their afterword to Violet Isle, written in January 2009.

Clasping the veils which obscure the unwieldy scale of mass food production and its relation to the individualist perspective, a microwave conjoins single-use items which are the product of a knotted paradigm. Sacrifices for chemical-laden goods whose overlooked existence acts as a form of preservation. Amalgamations of livestock processed with guarded chemical formulas. Extruded into countless layers of packaging. Through the entropy of consciousness these consumer items have been regurgitated and presented through a satirical lens.

Over at Runner Magazine, our manager had the opportunity to introduce us to the world-

"Setting foot into The Barbershop’s larval form on May 24th, I was met with the remnants of what once was, surely, a barbershop. The faded pink walls, floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and large basins of granite counter-top which served as pedestals for chemical innovations destined to become groundwater. Despite this tragic beauty, I knew it all had to go..."