Traffic and weather hold all that we know about multipleness in their loose, but insistent embrace. This multiple, seething, singing confluence rises up out of the city of life to join the enigmatic sky and clouds in Marcella Durand s magnificent, brutal, delicate epic. It s a stunning achievement.
-John Ashbery
In the poetic accumulation of Traffic & Weather, Marcella Durand creatively describes the city as a neo-Roman enclave before darkness sets in.
-Will Alexander
What is the nature of the places we inhabit? And how are they none other than ourselves? This book explores these questions in a single intricate text that presents the city as an organism, often breaking down and always vibrant, set amid a landscape that is equally problematic and thriving. From a wet footprint on a paper bag to the mechanics of light when splintered by construction, Durand touches the pulse-points and brings all that life to the page.
-Cole Swensen