While the publishing climate is certainly changing, I think
as long
as sales are tracked through traditional outlets and publishers continue to put the most emphasis using Bookscan
as a primary sales
reference point — versus an author's statement that the book has sold 3,000
copies in back -
of - the - room sales or
as ebooks — big publishers are going to be wary
of publishing authors that are showing, say, 100
copies sold.
The quiet paintings
of Agnes Martin (1912 — 2004) are also a
point of reference, with the documentation
of artworks being
copied as an attempt to translate photography to painting; for Gamarra, this exercise becomes a meditation on suspending personal subjectivity.