Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit book design In October 2014

In October 2014

an artist’s retreat

moreIt appeals to that deep desire to gather and collect

moreand what may be in your children’s air

Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit book design In October 2014Alienation and dire frustration mount as an unnamed womana motherstruggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control. Told through one side of an epistolary exchange, the novels letters are bookended by dense ramblings by the mothers son, who struggles to speak and write and spends most of his days in lockdown rearranging his vessels, hysterically laughing, drooling, writhing,