Suburban Fantastic

Published by Biscuit Books 2023
Edition of 25
Softcover
40 pages
148 × 210 mm

Despite its consistent presence, suburbia as a geography is hazy and ill-defined. Delineating where the suburbs start and end can prove difficult. So too the images of the suburbs we carry are unique and conflicting.

For some the suburbs are the pinnacle of middle-class advancement. A landscape of little kingdoms. For others they are a trap of drab conformity. Where the dreams of youth go to die.

My internal suburb has a nostalgic topography. It bathes in the endless sunshine of the halcyon days of boyhood. It was mapped on a BMX and surveyed by climbing trees.

Suburban Fantastic takes the reader on a journey through my remembered suburb. A playground of shifting spaces and geometries is presented here in book form. The material nature of the book reflects a sense of discovery and expectation. A longed-for state of child-like apprehension; where an exciting unknown waits around every corner.