Published in commemoration of the artist’s career retrospective in 2019, the catalogue’s meticulous design and detailed history of Blake’s multifaceted practice render it well worth the wait. The material variety of the design smartly complements the multifaceted nature of Blake’s art, comprising glossy color plates and matte pages with half-tone reproductions presenting essays.

This book allows images and text to inform each other through proximity, providing the reader with a key to the ideas explored onscreen. These juxtapositions reveal the continuity of certain frictions throughout Ahwesh’s filmography, particularly the relationship between death, sexuality, and the mediation of our perception of reality by both social and technological apparatuses.