A6, 24 pages, Screen printed, Saddle stitched, Softcover, Edition of 200, 2026

On 10 August 2018, Richard Russell, known to those close to him as Beebo, took an empty Horizon Air passenger plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. For over an hour, he flew above Puget Sound while speaking with air-traffic control, before crashing on Ketron Island.

Eight years later, I’ve made Beebo: a sequence of 20 images produced across five screenprinted sheets. The work draws upon the aircraft’s flight, the surrounding landscape and fragments of Russell’s final conversation. It doesn’t attempt to explain him or what happened, but instead reconstructs something of that strange, tragic and fleeting event.

The screenprints have now become an A6 artist’s book, published in an edition of 200 by Gorgokonga Editions. The animation shown here is a companion work, extending the printed sequence into a slow, flickering loop.

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