Dan Commons, Absent Air, 2020

Absent Air is a book that is marked by our current time and as such is highly competent in communicating a feeling that is intertwined within our current experience. The book feels like a direct continuation from No Silver Bird; however, it markedly proposes something that pushes further to question our senses and our ability to understand the given social and cultural situation. The chemical unsurety that exists within Commons’ work offers us a possible way out and presents a celebratory vision that embodies the potential that we need within a greater society to express ourselves and envision a future that belongs to us.