By Chris Harnan. Published by Breakdown Press. Softcover, 224 pages, Colour and B&W, 2025. 170 × 240mm -- 224 pages -- offset printed -- paperback -- ISBN: 9781911081333 Big Pool by Chris Harnan is an expansive, symphonic work in pictures. Reading Big Pool is a vision assault. Overwhelming and essential. Like drinking from a fire hose. From primordial soup to Mount Olympus. Or cradle to grave. Or five minutes lost online. Big Pool is a journey that will blast you into the other side and leave you wondering what you used to think pictures were all about anyway? Chris Harnan’s restless art moves through several different techniques and approaches, one moment wild and expressive, another cold and precise. Big Pool explores the rhythms of complexity, guiding the reader compulsively through the pages so even the most abstract images take on a power and a poetics of their own. It’s a story written in the space between atoms, intertwined with all things, everywhere, always. It’s an experience like no other. Printed by Jelgavas Tipografija in Riga. Co-published with Fidèle Editions in Paris.
