nestar press’s standard black and white reproductions lend a factual sense of wonder, mystery, and even menace to the images of the South and Central American jungles as gathered by the artists Bob Braine and Mark Dion. Following in the footsteps of no one in particular (however William Burrough’s ‘Yage Letters’ (1963), frequently comes to mind) Braine, Dion, and their friends and guides, find themselves in a ‘post-industrial’ landscape where the traces of man are never too far away. The artists cite Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Lost World’ as an inspiration; and Doyle’s greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, casts his long shadow over these expeditions in their quest for the truth.
Tim Maul, New York.

Bob Braine & Mark Dion
Neotropic
Published January 2006

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