Chris Harnan's Big Pool has arrived stateside, encoding a double-helix of visual information that is designed to evolve your consciousness as you turn the pages.  Anyone looking to get out of their head for a bit – and away from linear thinking and cost/benefit analyses – might want to consider diving into this 224-page optical blast.  It's safer than drugs – and cheaper in the long run, as a renewable resource that can be revisited as often as liked.  The work is almost entirely textless; the minimal text present is employed more for effect than narrative purposes and is primarily in English, with the rest in French

We've posted a generous gallery from the book up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.

And here's what Breakdown Press has to say about it:

Big Pool by Chris Harnan is an expansive, symphonic work in pictures. Reading Big Pool is a vision assault. Overwhelming and essential. Like drinking from a fire hose. From primordial soup to Mount Olympus. Or cradle to grave. Or five minutes lost online. Big Pool is a journey that will blast you into the other side and leave you wondering what you used to think pictures were all about anyway?

Chris Harnan’s restless art moves through several different techniques and approaches, one moment wild and expressive, another cold and precise. Big Pool explores the rhythms of complexity, guiding the reader compulsively through the pages so even the most abstract images take on a power and a poetics of their own. It’s a story written in the space between atoms, intertwined with all things, everywhere, always. It’s an experience like no other.

170 × 240mm -- 224 pages -- offset printed -- paperback -- ISBN: 9781911081333

Printed by Jelgavas Tipografija in Riga.

Co-published with Fidèle Editions in Paris.