TWICE THROUGH THE MAZE

new book:
TWICE THROUGH THE MAZE
from Burning Books
by Michael Sumner &
Melody Sumner Carnahan
A silent graphic opera in 48 episodes.

Synopsis of the "synopsis" : Two spoiled Olympians, Cronus (The Clown) and Rhea (his wife), throw a big party, which gets out of hand when the Minotaur (The Minister) and the Tokyo Coyote (the wild card) show up along with dozens of other uninvited guests including the overzealous Aphrodite (The Minister’s Illegitimate Daughter). Nobody agrees on exactly what happened but Theseus (The Heartthrob) and Hermes (The Investigator) struggle to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, Artemis (The Defector) goes on trial in The Unrepaired Synonym Theater.

TWICE THROUGH THE MAZE
10 x 8.5 inches / 56-pages
Includes 48 photographic works by Michael Sumner and a detailed 3,200 word "synopsis" of the events by Melody Sumner Carnahan.
ISBN: 978-0-936050-48-5
• WINNER in Art and Photography, Southwest Book Design & Production Awards, 2014
• "Best Books 2013" THE Magazine
• 2016 exhibition at Phil Space
• exhibition review Southwest Contemporary
• book review Santa Fe New Mexican

$21.95 / free shipping in the US

<<< Click thumbnails to see larger images with extended captions.

Special thanks to the following people for their unexpected appearances in the Maze:
Guy Ambrosino
Tamami Asada
Rita Bard
Matthew Chase-Daniel
Mykel Diaz
Parley Gagne
Hisanori Gogota
Barbara Golden
Michelle Goodman
Rod Harrison
James Hart
Jennifer Joseph
Josef Koudelka
Richard Krasin
Marianne Kunz
Sarah Langley
Dunbar Lyles
Andrew Lyman
Bob McCullough
Chris Mann
John Margraff
Molly Padgett
Serena Rieke
Celia Rumsey
Michael Schippling
Andrea de Lusignan Senutovitch
Sarah Skenazy
Steina
Patrick Sumner
Sheila Davies Sumner
Mark Trayle
Woody Vasulka
Suzanne Vilmain
Marion Wasserman
Roy Wroth
. . . and a few others whose names we couldn’t discover.