Deformer: The Shaping and Mishaping Effects of Growing up a Specimen in the Suburban Domestic Incubator (And the Subsequent Paradigm Shift Upon Exit)

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Eleven years in the making and compiling more than thirty years worth of material: Ed Templetons Deformer, a multi-media scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County, California. This beautifully designed volume, entirely art-directed by Templeton himself, is sure to be a major work. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in what Templeton refers to as the suburban domestic incubator. Deformer intertwines photographs, paintings, drawings, sketchbook pages, disciplinary letters from his grandfather and religious notes from his mother into a magnificent narrative of teenage isolation and social criticism. Many of the photographs have come about due to his life as a professional skateboarder. Skateboarding allowed me to travel the world and that showed me that where I lived was totally messed up, says Templeton. That perspective has fueled me and become a source for my art. Through photographs and stories, Ed Templetons Deformer offers readers an intensely close and personal look at not only one artists coming of age, but also the often overlooked and forgotten dark side of the American dream.