Hunters Follow Harpy Shadows

Rin Kim

ISBN 10: 0894391003 / ISBN 13: 9780894391002

Published by Printed Matter, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hunters Follow Harpy Shadows
• Publisher: Printed Matter
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0894391003
• ISBN 13: 9780894391002
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

“…Delivered from the lips of the artist as a genderfluid seraph that has left heaven to tell mortals of the other worlds…”

Hunters Follow Harpy Shadows is an experimental work taking the form of an extended poetic sequence in the high fantasy style, set in a world built from reimagined Korean folklore, biblical storytelling, and queer mythologies.

Across twenty-five chapters, Rin Kim’s text recounts the tangled, cosmic history of shapeshifting goddexes intermixed with an otherworldly cast of demis, dryads, wraiths, satyrs, tieflings and sirens. Taking cues from the Old Testament, fantasy storytelling, and the depths of fanfiction forums online, the project alternates between narrative storytelling in the direct mode of epic religious texts and a series of Psalmic interventions spoken in the innermost voice of the gods. Like a series of connected visions, Hunters Follow Harpy Shadows hands down the origin stories of distant worlds — of clashing immortals, species dying out, and deities fading from power. It is both a fantasy saga beset by violence, warfare and blood sacrifice, and a lovers’ song of longing and transcendence.

During the origins of the earth, mortals sacrificed their children to the belly of the depths, to Yawong: god of subservience and singularity…

Central to the project are new images by Oliver Davis, shot on 35mm film, which offer views of a fragmented landscape — jewel-like glimpses of sunlit trees, river stones, and murky underbrush.