Residual Bodies editorial design The time of retrospection

The time of retrospection

Published by Steve Lawrence and edited with Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick

Like a warm memory that you can look back on

His thoughts are refracted by his own translations of the dirges of the 6th-century poetess al-Khansa’

but is entranced by a book the avaricious magpie drops in the pond

Residual Bodies editorial design The time of retrospectionWith Residual Bodies, Forma Editions experiments with vintage imagery and the tactile feel of print on paper. It revisits an interest explored in 2016 when the press launched its first project, Not For Sale to Minors, a large format newsprint series that reimagined gay porn imagery by removing its explicit elements. Through three issues, that early work focused on the tension between erotic representation, censorship, and the materiality of print. It