Erik Ruin

Erik Ruin/ Katt Hernandez
Flight
$15

Flight was a shadow theater piece which depicted the picaresque journey of a youth displaced by war attempting to escape/ transcend persecution. The wordless half-hour show, featured a unique montage-based technique of shadow story-telling illuminating scrolling landscapes and intricately cut scenes of shipwrecks, refugee camps & burning house. The hair-raisingly beautiful semi-improvised score was performed live by violinist Katt Hernandez.

The book/CD version of Flight is an innovatively designed hand-assembled 44-page booklet containing the 30-minute solo violin score, all the art from the show with multiple fold-out sections, hand-printed details and silkscreened cardboard covers made from reused record covers. It marks the third release on Reid Books & I's micro-label Desperate Commodities.

booklet & CD
44 pages w/ chipboard covers
5.5'x5.5'
unsigned/unnumbered edition of 500