A Spiritual Good Time Artist's Books and together they become postcards

and together they become postcards from emotional places that dwell the human

and marks the culmination of many themes in van Agtmael’s ongoing work on American power and ideology in the post-9/11 world

By narrating the experience of migrating from Argentina to France

to set it aside

A Spiritual Good Time Artist's Books and together they become postcardsThe source of the photographs in A Spiritual Good Time is from various surfing magazines published before 1990. The appropriated images from mass printed surf culture is a meditation on the perpetual pursuit of pleasure. It is a blending of fear and desire within a sport that often focused on the heterosexual gaze, hyper masculinity, localism and the gossamer tipped dream of all inclusiveness and spirituality. Through tight cropping and editing of the