Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.
Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Photographs: Nick Tauro

Publisher: Selfpublished

9 pages

Pictures: 10

Year: 2025

Price: 500

Comments: Hardcover with binding rings, 18,5 x 15 cm. Repurposed child's book; collage, hand manipulated foud vernacular photographs; encaustic wax, paint and masking tape. First Edition. Unique copy.

This project is a unique, one-of-a-kind handmade book.

I repurpose thick-paged children’s books, layering them with paint, collage, and encaustic wax as the final surface. The subject of this book is a fictional assessment of my hometown. I have a conflicted, often fraught relationship with the place I grew up, and I’m using this book to reconcile painful and challenging memories from my time there. I incorporate found vernacular photographs—not my own—distress them by hand, and create fictional narratives around each character or situation portrayed. In essence, I am constructing a new version of my memories, a new personal history, through this project. 


Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.,Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

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