Daria Svertilova – Summerland Physical Handmade red slab–built bookends

Handmade red slab–built bookends

in their exploration of abstraction and the readymade

solemnity and joy

Marcelo Krasilcic

a French-American Photography Commission of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès

Daria Svertilova – Summerland Physical Handmade red slab–built bookendsHumanity has always dreamt about a utopian place where people would finally find everlasting peace. A place where shame, fear and suffering no longer exist. A place where the sun is always warm, the earth is fertile, the water is pure, and the wind is gentle. Wiccans, modern day pagans, believe that such a place is called "Summerland" a fusion of limbo and paradise where a human soul rests until its next reincarnation. A magic realm of light and