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Harland Miller’s new edition, Feedback Forever, forms part of the artist’s Cuboids series (2016-), drawing on 1960s and 1970s graphic design.
Miller says “I had a memory of these types of designs on the covers of self-help books from [this era], like ‘New Horizons in Psychology’, edited by Brian M. Foss (1966), which had a structurally impossible triangle design… Also, more specifically in the case of the cuboid form, from the brain-teaser, puzzle-pages of newspapers and magazines, where again you’d have this surreal geometry that would constantly shift on its axis… some might say ‘flip flop’.”
The pulsating cuboid graphic in this new edition has appeared in a number of paintings by Miller to date, including Circling The Small Ads and Better Than Life (2017). The diagrammatic shapes evoke loops of sonic feedback, further emphasised by the aurality of the title, Feedback Forever.
As the art critic Martin Herbert describes: “part of the cleverness of Miller’s work is that his art continues working, via mnemonics, when the viewer is not in front of it: it runs through one’s head like music does.”
Feedback Forever has been created through multiple layers of woodcut printing with hand-finishing by the print studio.
Published by Manifold Editions, 2025.
