Byzantium
David Erdos and Max Reeves
Photography, Poetry, Sykogeosophy
A photo-poetical collaboration exploring the liminal zone outside of the mainstream with the occult, abandoned Mental asylums, physik herbs and the Imagination.
Winter early 2019 25x21 cm 130 pages full colour
ISBN 978-1-9998281-2-7
“Byzantium divines a fabulous lost landscape of myth, magic and madness from haunting fragments of its missing light. Scrying the beautiful photo-traces of Max Reeves, David Erdos shapes his lyric information into the ghostly blueprint for a marvellous new empire of the mind, builds crystalline towers of meaning from Kabbalist grave-moss, séance gardens and warlock ruins. A wonderful piece of work.”
Alan Moore
“I marvelled over the velocity and production of David Erdos’ poems and the richness of Max Reeves’ imagery, as Andrew Kotting, Anonymous Bosch and I rambled and slithered over the tracks of heresy in the Pyrenees. This book seems utterly essential. David Erdos is out there now, high among the ranks of the great but unappreciated. He is a trawl of necessary resistance and swift, heart-stabbing tributes in a time of cultural diffidence and confusion. Long may he sing.”
Iain Sinclair