19 Watercolors by Eve Sonneman
Published and distributed by F
Publication Date: October 2022
8 x 8 inches, saddle stitched
32 pages, full color Risograph
+ cover, screenprinted jacket
Edition: 300 (numbered)
$30

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FROM THE MID TO LATE 90S, I lived with my mother Kati in Hell’s Kitchen, in an apartment she has held since 1986. I live here again, as I have for the last three years, since she retired and moved back to Finland. A small watercolor by her neighbor, the artist Eve Sonneman, hangs on a wall in the bedroom, where it has since it was gifted to Kati. Signed and dated 1998, the watercolor returns to me the year of its making, a time I came to better know both Eve and her work. Always steady, always searching… Eve’s hand, eye, and mind make contact and leave impressions. One impression that sticks with me is being invited by Eve to Lawrence Weiner’s birthday party in his West Village home. I believe the two were just embarking on their collaboration, the small publication entitled How to Touch What (2000), a series of Eve’s color photographs with Weiner’s words stamped over them in his own signature hand, eye, and mind. The conversation between them focused on the pleasure and revelry of life. I’m reminded that the party was that too—everything a party should be—returning a warmth that only time can develop. Merriment, asking me: what is felt, after all these years, what stays, what is held close? The hospitality of neighbors, the adjacency of living. These past three years have been marked by events both monstrous and meaningless and also, for me, by the steadiness of this proximity, in an apartment in a building on a street in a city, with Eve, just down the hall. The enduring bond of our camaraderie has come to produce this publication, 19 Watercolors.

Tuomas Korpijaakko
August 2022

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