Lenka Clayton
How We Thought It Would Be And How It Was
Atlanta, USA: J&L Books, 2025
48 pp., 29.2 x 24.2 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown
Designed by Jason Fulford (who runs J&L Books with his partner Leanne Shapton), Lenka Clayton’s latest publication collects twenty-three of the more-than five-hundred drawings she has produced using a 1957 portable Smith-Corona Skyriter typewriter.
This series consists of works made in 2020, during the early days of the Covid pandemic, including her grandmother’s thumb on the camera during a Zoom call, kitchen haircuts, quarantined mail, empty supermarket shelves and tea towels repurposed as face masks.
The book is available for $30 US, here.
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