About The Book
For the past seven years, Pia Paulina Guilmoth and Jesse Bull Saffire have been scavenging within a sixty-mile orbit of their home: abandoned houses collapsing into the earth, mould-streaked cardboard boxes, the hunting camp at the end of the road, a politician’s discarded gay porn collection, yard sale leftovers, a junk-shop beside the waterfall. Family photos, town reports, forgotten newspapers — fragments of lives slipping out of memory.
The book collects these rescues, re-assemblies, and accidents: material both tender and grotesque, mundane and uncanny. Among them are photographs taken by Pia and Jesse on 8 MP digital cameras while trespassing and scavenging for material, alongside images from Pia’s own family archive. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artists
Pia Guilmoth lives and works in rural central Maine. She likes to lay in the dirt, be with friends, hang out with her kitties, shoot guns, and dig through debris. Her last book Flowers Drink the River (Stanley/Barker), is a finalist for the 2025 Aperture-Paris Photo Book of the Year award.
Jesse Bull Saffire is not an artist. She’s a community organizer who helps coordinate land return to the Wabanaki Nations. She loves the woods, demolition derbies, old junk, and sitting by a river with friends
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