For our fifth issue of Public Domain, Los Angeles poet Rosie Stockton mines the unconscious of the petroleum complex. Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s reported comparison between psychoanalysis and drilling for oil, Gusher connects images of industry, ecology, destruction and desire to confront a subject larger than language. 

With each issue of Public Domain, we invite a distinct voice to select a sequence of images culled from the public domain. The expansion of accessible grants, broadband internet and affordable scanning technology have made available massive caches of otherwise inaccessible material, formerly silently sitting in institutions around the world. With this publication we willfully reanimate these archives by putting their holdings back into circulation.

Available for purchase at Acid-Free, this Friday Oct. 18th through Sunday Oct. 20th. Online orders will begin shipping on Thursday, Oct. 24th.

84 pages.
8.5 x 11 in.