Riley Hanson, Virgin Eye, 2021, oil on board, human eye, velvet curtain, and hardware
Riley Hanson, Virgin Eye (detail), 2021, oil on board, human eye, velvet curtain, and hardware
Riley Hanson, Virgin Eye (detail), 2021, oil on board, human eye, velvet curtain, and hardware
Riley Hanson, Virgin Eye, 2021, oil on board, human eye, velvet curtain, and hardware
This book continues the ideas presented in Riley Hanson's Solo Exhibition, Virgin Eye at Peep. Each book is one of a kind with a screen printed cover and hole punched pages. Printed in Philadelphia by Christopher Van Auken
Virgin Eye
Riley Hanson
November 11 - December 23, 2021
It is not a dream when I reach you. When trees change season.
When everyone you have known knows you no more.
In that sorrow do not feel lonely because you will always have this song.
When you sing it, you will remember what you have done.
You will feel as though you are in a movie.
The theatricality of your life is what sets you apart.
I am just a messenger.
And it’s with time that all things feel the same.
Yet the audience knows we have changed.
Our clothes and hair sit in different ways.
I will restrain myself, for the sake of what I’m trying to explain.
Although you are reading the same book the story has changed.
Riley Hanson
Riley Hanson (b. 1995 in Akron, Ohio) is is an artist, poet and tattooer living in Philadelphia, PA.