Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Nick Tauro Jr.
Antidote To Nostalgia (UNIQUE COPY)

Photographs: Nick Tauro

Publisher: Selfpublished

9 pages

Pictures: 10

Year: 2025

Comments: Hardcover with binding rings, 18,5 x 15 cm. Repurposed child's book; collage, hand manipulated found 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.