The Absolute recedes is a union of the universal and the personal. The project acted as a filter through which Merriam could process and transform traumatic personal experience into a greater awareness of, and a deeper relationship with, the universe at large. In the wake of powerful loss, Merriam felt as though he was given a choice. He could continue to languish in cynicism, or he could try to grow - to meet the moment, or perhaps, to transcend it. Through firsthand experience with powerful places and natural phenomena, and through countless excursions into his own mind in search of its most distant shores, The Absolute Recedes aims to do just that - to take the viewer where it has taken Merriam, somewhere farther than he knew he could go.
Brian Merriam @brianhmerriam
232 pages
20.4 × 30.5 cm
Softcover (Foil stamped+Deboss processed
released July 2024
edition of 500
