pissing in the garden is a photo zine with a poem by Edward Steck. Edition of 150. Printed in LA. About 80 pages. It includes about 50 people (friends and friends of friends) peeing in my garden. (Yes, peeing is good, it adds nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium to your soil and then to your plants.) The photos documents a network of friendships in a setting (the garden). For me it is both a documentation of the person and action (a kind of solitary performance) and the garden itself. The garden as a setting, a site, a landscape. The setting, the background, itself as the parallel subject. It is place for things to happen, for people to gather (also for animals and plants and mushrooms and other life to meet). There is also the intersection, the blurring, the intertwining and connection that happens in this between each person and the soil and plants. I originally imagined this to be a kind of group exhibition where everyone leaves a trace of themselves into the soil that will re-emerge as leaves and stems and flowers.- David Horvitz
