You Don't Need to Hurry Home, Jeff Smudde
You Don’t Need to Hurry Home takes its name from a postcard sent from Sullivan, Illinois to Flora Illinois in 1919. The postcard shows the scene of a rural road, likely in Sullivan, telegraph poles above and frost-covered trees. Footprints and wheel tracks line the bottom third of this photograph, which was printed crooked to correct the image’s off-kilter angle. “We are getting along alright…” wrote the sender 106 years ago, “Write often as I am anxious…” This depicts an Illinois that I hold dear, one that I often photograph. The decaying rural spaces that have long since passed their time, the wooden posts and slats holding on for dear life. The bullet holes in signs and the barriers that seldom do their job. These photographs hold their subjects in perpetual tension, supporting or hanging on to whatever they can, the past permanently held in the frame.
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Jeff Smudde (pr. “SMOO-dee”; b. 1997, Metro Detroit, Michigan, he/him/his) is an artist currently based in the Providence, Rhode Island area using various photographic processes and sound. He received his Master of Fine Art at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2023 as a Distinguished Art Fellow and his Bachelor of Art from Illinois State University in 2019. His poetic documentary-style work comes from a background in journalism, a Midwestern cultural upbringing, and an interest in the landscape of America with a focus on perceptions of place and spirituality.
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Edition: 100
Page Count: 36
Dimensions: 5.5”x8.5”
Format: Saddle Stitch / Zine
ISBN: 978-1-962415-11-8
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You Don’t Need to Hurry Home takes its name from a postcard sent from Sullivan, Illinois to Flora Illinois in 1919. The postcard shows the scene of a rural road, likely in Sullivan, telegraph poles above and frost-covered trees. Footprints and wheel tracks line the bottom third of this photograph, which was printed crooked to correct the image’s off-kilter angle. “We are getting along alright…” wrote the sender 106 years ago, “Write often as I am anxious…” This depicts an Illinois that I hold dear, one that I often photograph. The decaying rural spaces that have long since passed their time, the wooden posts and slats holding on for dear life. The bullet holes in signs and the barriers that seldom do their job. These photographs hold their subjects in perpetual tension, supporting or hanging on to whatever they can, the past permanently held in the frame.
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Jeff Smudde (pr. “SMOO-dee”; b. 1997, Metro Detroit, Michigan, he/him/his) is an artist currently based in the Providence, Rhode Island area using various photographic processes and sound. He received his Master of Fine Art at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2023 as a Distinguished Art Fellow and his Bachelor of Art from Illinois State University in 2019. His poetic documentary-style work comes from a background in journalism, a Midwestern cultural upbringing, and an interest in the landscape of America with a focus on perceptions of place and spirituality.
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Edition: 100
Page Count: 36
Dimensions: 5.5”x8.5”
Format: Saddle Stitch / Zine
ISBN: 978-1-962415-11-8
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You Don’t Need to Hurry Home takes its name from a postcard sent from Sullivan, Illinois to Flora Illinois in 1919. The postcard shows the scene of a rural road, likely in Sullivan, telegraph poles above and frost-covered trees. Footprints and wheel tracks line the bottom third of this photograph, which was printed crooked to correct the image’s off-kilter angle. “We are getting along alright…” wrote the sender 106 years ago, “Write often as I am anxious…” This depicts an Illinois that I hold dear, one that I often photograph. The decaying rural spaces that have long since passed their time, the wooden posts and slats holding on for dear life. The bullet holes in signs and the barriers that seldom do their job. These photographs hold their subjects in perpetual tension, supporting or hanging on to whatever they can, the past permanently held in the frame.
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Jeff Smudde (pr. “SMOO-dee”; b. 1997, Metro Detroit, Michigan, he/him/his) is an artist currently based in the Providence, Rhode Island area using various photographic processes and sound. He received his Master of Fine Art at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2023 as a Distinguished Art Fellow and his Bachelor of Art from Illinois State University in 2019. His poetic documentary-style work comes from a background in journalism, a Midwestern cultural upbringing, and an interest in the landscape of America with a focus on perceptions of place and spirituality.
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Edition: 100
Page Count: 36
Dimensions: 5.5”x8.5”
Format: Saddle Stitch / Zine
ISBN: 978-1-962415-11-8
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