Foibles & Avoidance.

Photographs by Sara J. Winston.

National Monument Press, 2024. 29 individual black and white riso 7x10" prints,

At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, Sara J. Winston moved into her parents house, her childhood home, with her husband and child. The inter generational family of five remained there in lockdown until August 2020.

This publication includes photographs made by Sara during those months and crossword clues that her dad, an avid crossword puzzler, did not answer.

Foibles & Avoidance is a collection of 29 individual black and white riso 7x10" prints on card stock, companioned with a 16 page booklet of text, contained within a recycled manilla file folder. It was printed in an edition of 100 in July 2024 with with a Risograph SF9450 & RZ310, at Chute Studio, in Oakland, CA.

"I’ve asked my dad many times about when he started doing the NYT weekend crossword puzzle. I still don’t really know but I have pieced together a story. He’s been doing them for a long time, long before I was born.

In the spring of 2012, Dad had an illness that landed him in the hospital for a week and then in a cardiac rehabilitation facility for many weeks afterward. Around this time, I started to collect all of my dad’s weekly puzzles.

At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, my husband, child, and I moved into my parent’s house, my childhood home, as all of the preparation and energy my family of three had put into moving to Berlin was stubbed out. We lived in the house together from March 2020 until August 2020.

This publication is composed of a selection of photographs also made during that period. The texts are crossword clues from puzzles I collected; clues that my dad did not answer and that I found that I could. Had we done the puzzles together, maybe we would have found some joy in the activity. But we mainly stayed separately during those strange days. Not for lack of love, but for a shared love of debate and reasoning out questions that makes it difficult to be in the same room for too long. Leading us to Foibles and Avoidance." — Sara J. Winston

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