Zin Taylor

Lavender Glass' explores how the subjects of growth and formation develop in Zin Taylor?s work into a series of conceptual forms surfacing through investigative elements of inquiry, exchange, and abstraction. Co-published with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, the monograph gathers nearly a decade of the Canadian artist?s multifaceted narrative work across sculpture, installation, artist?s books, and writing. A text by Belgian curator and writer Dieter Roelstraete serves as a contextual introduction to a five-day conversation between Roelstraete and Taylor that took place while both were in Chicago. The meandering discussion explores the trail of influence between a work?s concept, the language it develops, and the form it produces, as well as the individual pieces or concepts involved; associative links to cooking, music, botany, stones, and the city of Brussels arise along the way. The Belgian graphic designer Boy Vereecken, together with Antoine Begon, developed a sensitive design for the publication, integrating images of Taylor?s work into the elongated conversation. The layout functions not only to illustrate the subjects as they are discussed, sometimes literal