Latitudes is a collage whose only constraint is to use fragments of existing texts and images and whose objective is to briefly suggest the outline of an imaginary novel.

Derek Knight is the author. Over the years, the texts he has written – art criticism, fiction, personal reflections, email messages – have formed a substantial archive. Artist Shawn Serfas experiments with gesture and sculptural forms on large canvases. His paintings are abstract yet carry the marks of physical intervention and human intention. As editor of Latitudes, Catherine Parayre selected brief excerpts from unrelated texts by Knight, arranged them so as to suggest the tentative outline of a potential novel, and associated them with details from large paintings by Serfas. -Publisher