Surface Driven

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Surface Driven is a nonlinear exploration and celebration of art and artists. Each chapter presents a host of characters obsessed with their unique visual imperative. There is no beginning or end to the book. Instead one is led around a Möbius strip, presenting the reader with one side (the artist's) and one edge (their art). The novel can be read quickly, as one might race through a gallery. However, embedded within the text are hundreds of pop culture references and purpose-built asides that light up the dazzling atmosphere of paint, sculpture, music, and technology. Underneath it all breathes the theatre of a day in the life of an artist. All the visual art in the book is cerebrally imagined, i.e., none of it exists (a poetic conceit not without intention). Surface Driven is at once hilarious, deviant, provocative, intoxicating, powerful, memorable, cynical, bent, baltic. More brainstream than mainstream Surface Driven will appeal to fans of Geek Love, Hopscotch, V., Steps, Stone Junction, Humbolt's Gift, Childhood's End, The Tartar Steppe, The Doors, Grayson Perry, or anxious thoughts of breaking out of a present tense dead end unfulfilling middle or no management nightmare job. Are you surface driven? Come take a ride.