Michel Foucault's 'Minor Perverts
Whom 19th Century Psychiatrists Entomologized'

Included in the 2008 Booker's Dozen traveling exhibition (curated by Idaho Center for the Book), this modified accordion-fold book is constructed of brown parcel wrap and contains hand-made picture postcards that narrate a failed romance. The cross-cultural, same-sex relationship described by the narrator is juxtaposed with snapshots of locales in Japan, all of which are empty of people. The subjective experience documented in the postcards is further juxtaposed with objective (and now archaic) sexological terminology taken from Foucault's History of Sexuality, Volume I. Through these juxtapositions, the book deals with themes of disjuncture & disorientation, blending autobiography with other genres, while exploring the cultural and sociopolitical discourses that structure intimate, individual experience.