Down on the Farm celebrates the pure idyllic life of rural America. This project aims to reposition a book that introduces the various aspects of happy life on the farm. This delightful narrative is interrupted from the south by an uninvited parallel story. A narrative that is much less pretty and much more crude. Somewhere between the lines we can witness a complex story unveiling. One told, or untold by different perspectives and viewed in different lights. We are used to hear always one distilled side of this problem, but it is important to observe both. 

The top half of the book is based on Down on the Farm, A picture treasury of rural America in the good old days, 1954. It uses the entire text of the original book.

The second book is made up from a compilation of articles, essays, lyrics, that–in my view–conceptually connect to the top narrative. The imagery is curated from several sources in order to best match the written content.