Peter Maloney

‘Fugitive Text’ draws together photographic diptychs and triptychs made since the mid-1990s in response to the artist’s experience of love, desire and loss through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It incorporates photographs taken in-camera as well as images drawn from a variety of sources, including vintage photographs found in flea markets and images re-photographed from pornography and popular culture.

The images draw on Peter Maloney’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic (as an HIV-positive show more person who lost much of their social group during the 1980s and early 1990s) and on photography’s specific relationship to memory, time and place, and testimony. Combined with scraps of text, the images become memory fragments. The memories suggested by these works are those of someone remembering love and loss – friends and lovers lost to HIV/AIDS, and also the moments of desire, risk and sensation that in a way mark the queer experience of time and space. show less

A many-faceted book, I like it more each time I read it. It's a counting book, it's a color book (brightly colored "frame" pages offer a sneak peak of each illustration), it's a hidden picture book (find the plane!), it's a vocabulary book (one is a foot, two are feet, one is a die, six are dice), it's simple enough for toddlers, yet sophisticated enough for preschoolers. In short, a winner!
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A very creative concept book teaching young children to count from 1 to 10. The book also teaches uncommon plural form of nouns: 1 goose, 5 geese. The art is strategic such that it does not overwhelm. As the book count up, the style follows: 1, 2; 1, 3; 1, 4, etc... On each "1" page, the page is a solid bright color, with a square cutout to highlight and focus on the particular example. Turn the page and the reader sees the other animals in that cohort. On the opposite page, the author keeps show more tabs of which numbers has already been counted. The redundancy makes learning to count easy to remember. This style is very similar to the "12 days of Christmas" song. The back endpages summarize the whole book in one number line. show less

So much more than a simple counting book, each two page spread shows "one foot" or "one mouse" or "one goose" through a cut-out window. Turn the page, though, and the window opens up to the plural versions-- two feet, three mice, four geese. Children can count along, getting not only a lesson in numbers but some reinforcement in irregular plural nouns. The illustrations are delightful and expressive.