Cowhide Editions
Cowhide Editions is an ongoing body of work that brings writing and material into direct contact. It uses cowhide, hand-built wooden frames, printed essays, cattle identification tags, and a feeding trough to create an alternative form of publication—one that thinks through what it means to brand an idea, to stretch it, to hang it on a wall.
Accompanying the work are printed copies of the artist’s essay ON COWS AND OTHER THINGS, each bound with a numbered cattle ear tag. The essays are distributed freely in the space—not stapled or bound in the usual way, but tagged. Editioned like livestock.
The essays made available to the public for free and -presented to the public in a feeding trough- deepen the series' conceptual stakes.
Together, the essays ask not just what ideas look like, but how they are shaped, stretched, marked, and absorbed. They don’t accompany the work—they ARE the work, staged materially and metaphorically through hide, frame, tag, and burn.
On Cows and Other Things
A meditation on mimicry, digestion, and the flattening of thought in a culture obsessed with consumption. Using cud-chewing as both metaphor and critique, the essay blends personal narrative, cultural analysis, and philosophical inquiry to explore how meaning is internalized—or bypassed—under systems that reward repetition over reflection.
Branding Season – On the Slow Death of the Unmarketable Artist
Extends the critique of consumption into the art world itself. Framed by my first bull ride, this essay examines the pressure artists face to become legible, marketable, and scrollable—brands rather than beings. It calls attention to the violence—emotional, psychological, systemic—embedded in turning people into product.
Together, the essays ask not just what ideas look like, but how they are shaped, stretched, marked, and absorbed.
Accompanying the work are printed copies of the artist’s essay ON COWS AND OTHER THINGS, each bound with a numbered cattle ear tag. The essays are distributed freely in the space—not stapled or bound in the usual way, but tagged. Editioned like livestock.
The essays made available to the public for free and -presented to the public in a feeding trough- deepen the series' conceptual stakes.
Together, the essays ask not just what ideas look like, but how they are shaped, stretched, marked, and absorbed. They don’t accompany the work—they ARE the work, staged materially and metaphorically through hide, frame, tag, and burn.
On Cows and Other Things
A meditation on mimicry, digestion, and the flattening of thought in a culture obsessed with consumption. Using cud-chewing as both metaphor and critique, the essay blends personal narrative, cultural analysis, and philosophical inquiry to explore how meaning is internalized—or bypassed—under systems that reward repetition over reflection.
Branding Season – On the Slow Death of the Unmarketable Artist
Extends the critique of consumption into the art world itself. Framed by my first bull ride, this essay examines the pressure artists face to become legible, marketable, and scrollable—brands rather than beings. It calls attention to the violence—emotional, psychological, systemic—embedded in turning people into product.
Together, the essays ask not just what ideas look like, but how they are shaped, stretched, marked, and absorbed.