The publication There Is No time – It’s All Erosion proposes a short reading from the idea of a time naturalized as unique, the "abstract time of machines", contrasting with the erosive and sedimentary processes that point to the "geological time".

The photographic images of rocks that compose this visual essay were edited to go through a specific printing process, with reticles and saturation, in order to create traces of layers and an allusion to the "geological time". Douglas Garcia took the photos, made the research and edited the images.

The essay about the "abstract time of machines" was written by the visual artist Daniel Jablonski, invited by Edições Membrana. Marina Oruê’s graphic design, based on the publication’s title, explores the use of the letters in Portuguese and English highlighted by graphic layers suggesting the intertwining and simultaneity between the pages.

The publication was launched at Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF), New York, February 25th to 28th, 2021.

13 x 18,5 cm, 56 pages
print by risograph 2 colours:
medium blue, warm red
on markatto edition crema 140g
and pólen bold 90g papers
singer sewn bound
bilingual edition of 100 copies,
numbered Portuguese/English

images and edition, Douglas Garcia
graphic design, Marina Oruê
text by, Daniel Jablonski
proofreading, Mariana Moura
translation, Juliana Lopes
printing, Entrecampo

São Paulo, SP, January 2021
Edições Membrana

From 2011 to 2019, the photographer Douglas Garcia carried out the photographic project Deviation, which took shape as a book edited by Edições Membrana.

Deviation is the process of capturing images of the city, mediated by a question, its answers and replies (a reply to other replies). The question was proposed to artists in the form of an invitation to create, suggest or indicate situations in the streets of São Paulo. The replies appeared in the form of gridded images of those answers. The attempt of searching for diversions or gaps was found among adverse circumstances, staged situations and the edges of the photographic frame.

Executing the project involved observing the inescapable, adverse and ephemeral relations that permeate the context of the streets and their concreteness, the purposeful actions inserted in the streets by guest artists and the photography as a program or model for capturing images, as do surveillance cameras, cell phones or scanning satellites.

The images were captured based on the idea of the absence of a main object and the division of the photographic frame into 9 parts, all of them having the same value, each fragment corresponding to an individual page of the publication.

Guest artists: Adriano Costa, Bruno Mendonça, Daniel Jablonski, Deyson Gilbert, Erica Ferrari, Fábio Morais, Flora Leite, Guilherme Peters, Gustavo Rezende, Marcius Galan, Rachel Pach and Tiago Santinho.

The book was launched in the 23rd of Tijuana SP Printed Art Fair, at Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil, August 3rd to 4th, 2019.

The zine Blind Spotis a visual essay based on different elements: a scanned image of the back of a retina, a model of a metropolis, as well as textures and color saturation that form a brief visual narrative, pointing to the inevitable relations involving the autonomy and normalization of the vision.

The zine Blind Spot was launched in the 20th edition of the Tijuana SP Printed Art Fair, at Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil, on August 25th and 26th, 2018.

The publication Spectacular Democratic Regime was originated from the idea of identifying and relating instances of quotidian expropriations involving media power, the individual, the crowd and democracy.

The RGB color broadcast, the images, the words and the figures used as elements for the construction of the visual narrative of the publication and the poster were extracted from moments experienced on April 17th, 2016.

The Spectacular Democratic Regime poster and publication were launched in the 10th edition of Tijuana Rio Printed Art Fair, at Escola de Artes Visuais, EAV, Parque Laje, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 7th to 8th, 2016; and in the 11th edition of Tijuana SP Printed Art Fair, at Casa da Povo, São Paulo, Brazil, on September 3th to 4th, 2016.