Ordinary Devotions combines photographs and sonnets in a photo-poetry collection about love's uncertainties, the messy gray it asks us to live in, and how over and over again it proves us wrong. The central poem of the project describes the intertwined life cycles of figs and wasps. In the wild, fig trees do not produce ripe fruit until a wasp enters an unripe bud, eats its sugars, and dies inside; the nutrients from the wasp's body then feed the infant fig. Who is the predator and who is the prey? The fig or the wasp? The answer depends entirely on when you decide to look.

These photographs and poems offer no solutions. What they do offer are questions to consider and small acts of love — the little ordinary devotions — that show us who we are.

Pages: 48

Binding: 2-Needle Coptic Binding Variation

Paper: Hiromi Asuka

Book Cloth: Iris Lilac & Iris Charcoal

Size: 6" x 8.25"

Edition: 25

Photography: Medium & Large Format Film 

Typeface: Minion Pro

This publication was made possible thanks to the Winter Residency Fellowship program at Penland School of Craft.

Limited copies are available for $100