Buildings Well Rot Ceilings Will Crumble
Izabella Provan
Handmade Zine
Fall 2024
3rd Edition of 8
2-Up Saddle, Stapled
Printed on Butcher White (Dur-o-Tone) French Paper
40 pages
8 x 5 1/2”
Izabella Provan
Handmade Zine
Fall 2024
3rd Edition of 8
2-Up Saddle, Stapled
Printed on Butcher White (Dur-o-Tone) French Paper
40 pages
8 x 5 1/2”
The ceiling is dripping swelling.
I heave a sigh.
Buildings
Well
Rot
Ceilings
Will
Crumble
All buildings will
one day.
Without upkeep, check-ins, concern
it will all fall apart
fear slips through fingertips
watch as what I can’t score
splits.
What happens if we let it dissolve?
Will our indents, marks, remember, remain?
or will
Soiled
Water
Seeps
into the silt
a zone for exclusion
a foundation in ruin.
Buildings Well Rot Ceilings Will Crumble are images that grew out of decay;
angry thoughts in a time of desperation became pressure exposed to shift a foundation.
Moments framed near suspicious structures and along river beds
inspired by wonder, fear, and dystopian literature: when ruin is inevitable, a certain type of magic
and escapism is yearned.
I heave a sigh.
Buildings
Well
Rot
Ceilings
Will
Crumble
All buildings will
one day.
Without upkeep, check-ins, concern
it will all fall apart
fear slips through fingertips
watch as what I can’t score
splits.
What happens if we let it dissolve?
Will our indents, marks, remember, remain?
or will
Soiled
Water
Seeps
into the silt
a zone for exclusion
a foundation in ruin.
Buildings Well Rot Ceilings Will Crumble are images that grew out of decay;
angry thoughts in a time of desperation became pressure exposed to shift a foundation.
Moments framed near suspicious structures and along river beds
inspired by wonder, fear, and dystopian literature: when ruin is inevitable, a certain type of magic
and escapism is yearned.
------------------------ About the Artist -----------------------
Izabella Provan (b. 1993) is a photographer living in Portland, Maine. She received a BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2015. Her images examine privacy, space, censorship, and contradictions in gray areas. Utilizing analog, digital, and experimental processes, Provan is concerned by an isolated existence and makes work that inspects the middle ground in the presence of anticipation, the fear of the unknown.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally by the PhoPa Gallery in Maine, the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, Canada, as well as in an innovative exhibition for localhost.gallery. Provan is a recipient of the first MESH Exhibition Grant from the Buschlen Mowatt Nichol Foundation and has been published in publications including Wilt Magazine and Papersafe Magazine. She currently works as the Media Technician for the Maine College of Art & Design.
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Buildings Well Rot Ceilings Will Crumble
Izabella Provan
Fall 2024
3rd Edition of 8 Handmade Zines
Images and Design by Izabella Provan
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