This photograph by Paul Turounet is drawn from Whispers From the Apple Orchard, a volume of the larger oeuvre, Somewhere Out There Something is Happening. It offers an impression of stillness and quiet contemplation at the Manzanar War Relocation Center from World War II in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Turounet’s practice seeks to honor the history of a place through reflection and remembrance.

The larger project, Somewhere Out There, Something is Happening, is a sweeping study of the physical places and psychological spaces of the contemporary American social landscape. Rendered as limited edition handmade artist’s books and prints, the work considers our inescapable history and asks whether what is past is a prologue of something happening now. Other sites explored include scenes the artist encountered at memorials for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, Orlando, FL, the rolling hills of Wounded Knee in Badlands, SD, and the forest of Philadelphia, MS where three Civil Rights champions met a tragic fate, among others.

The work is offered as a bookplate print in an edition of 10, or as more formalized scale 24 x 16 size in an edition of 5.
Custom commissions in XL 60 x 40 in. scale edition of 2 POR