Alix Vollum
Paradise Rendezvous

Newsprint
12 pages, 10 × 12.5-inch
Release date: October 1, 2014
Edition of 500

Alix Vollum meticulously replicates back page ads from the LA Weekly, inserting looping spirals of language fragments, found text from intragovernmental briefings and anonymous teen online role-play, and reflections on information, signs and meaning. In this overgrown text-image, "Paradise Rendezvous" fixates on the release of ecstasy though repetition, error, ambiguity, and a transcendence of design conventions.