{"product_id":"jim-dine-viral-interest","title":"Jim Dine: Viral Interest","description":"Like most of us, Jim Dine went into self-isolation in March 2020 following the Covid-19 lockdown. Unlike most of us, he turned these three months into a crucible of creativity and has now recorded his experiences in book form. Dine quickly settled into a new daily rhythm: his studio in Montrouge became a living as well as a working space-\"I spend my days in silence, painting and building\"-which he would leave on his bike every afternoon for another space in Montparnasse, to write poems-\"The intense silence of the street and my concentration sculpted the words in a direct way\"-and to garden, tending to the plants that he arranges like a color palette, the roses and oleander, the succulents, tomatoes and corn...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside Dine's photos, from blurred self-portraits and cropped studio still lifes to foliage and clouds skimming the sky, are text fragments he took from the daily newspapers: \"we are racing against trigger \/ once there was light \/ sick and dying African Americans \/ there is hope.\" The idea that Dine document this time in photos and appropriated text came unexpectedly from a conversation with his printer and publisher Gerhard Steidl; \u003ci\u003eViral Interest\u003c\/i\u003e is as much about their exchange as it is a document of confinement: haphazard and lyrical, compellingly contradictory.","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664000454692,"sku":"9783958298682","price":65.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958298682.jpg?v=1777351226","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/jim-dine-viral-interest","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}