# 21 Foibles & Avoidance
or, making books with your friends about your parents, w/ Sara J. Winston.
When I originally began this project, I had hoped for it to be a collaborative and conversational thing with other artists. The first few worked out this way then it turned in to something else. This playlist is not only a collaboration, but it’s made almost entirely by my friend and collaborator Sara J Winston.
Today, we’re releasing a publication called Foibles & Avoidance. It is a collection of photographs taken in 2020 when she and her family moved back in with her parents due to covid lock downs upending their plans to move to Berlin. They are combined with clues from half finished New York Times cross word puzzles Sara’s father kept for her, the type of confusingly charged objects parents hold on to and pass on as stand ins for the feelings they have trouble sharing clearly. To further attempt to contextualize the project, there is also a booklet of email exchanges between Sara and her father, as well as and a typeface we created from his hand written puzzles included in the publication.
After meeting in the summer of 2022 at ACRE residency in Wisconsin and deciding we wanted to work on a project together, we realized the 3000 miles and 3 hour time zone difference made a lot of that long thinking part of beginning collaborations difficult. So last summer, June 2023, we spent a week in Petaluma together at InCahoots Residency to try to figure out what the project was. That week, we discussed making a playlist that would accompany the book, and a version of this playlist began.
Fast forward another year later, untold revisions and reimaginings of the project, and it’s finally complete, and debuting this weekend at San Francisco Art Book Fair this weekend. Remembering that playlist we began in California, Sara cleaned up the chaotic collection we had created and added in songs suggested by her Father. It’s a slightly moody, atmospheric, sometimes tense, but ultimately tender collection of songs I’m really glad exists. I hope you enjoy.
#21 Foibles & Avoidance
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Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears
The Osmonds - I,I,I,I
Kyle Green, Aron Kallay - Echoes of Nothing: II. Something
Peggy Lee - Me and My Shadow
Sean Nicholas Savage - Let Me Out
Gigi Masin - Swallow’s Tempest
Tess Roby - Up 2 Me
Future Islands - Inch of Dust
Laurie Anderson - Let X=X
Groove Armada - Don’t Give Up
Ryuichi Sakamoto - M.A.Y. IN THE BACKYARD
Generationals - Elena
Kate Bush - Watching You Without Me
Ouri - boucles
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
MEITEI - Kintsugi
Alabaster DePlume - I’m Good at Not Crying
Agnes Obel - Familiar
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
In Heaven - Vulfpeck, Antwaun Stanley
