ferroschematics

published and available through random man editions

publisher has sold out but additional copies may be available through me, if you can track me down

a grimoire that unexpectedly came from another place through me in january february 24'

the work was shown in our studio gallery in ridgewood queens may 4 2024, alongside the sound channeling home made electronics of CF

barrett white:

"At turns atavistic and noided, Jake Tobin’s FERROSCHEMATICS views our subscription-doomed world through Bing shard-encrusted compound eyes. War’s payment plan is stenographed onto an unstable topology, bursting fracked leaks of flurried liches that coagulate at the borders of the page, frames embedded with a Chernabogian frenzy. Like Martin Vaughn-James’ spectro-spatial classic The Cage, Tobin disorients with maniacal clarity, fluttering through the peepholes of retinal-scanning portals and imperceptible doors. There are gates here—rivulets, folds, knots, veins, mesh—brought forth and animated like bundles of steel wool set ablaze. Meanwhile, the petrocene is awash in its own vantablack abundance: a silken yet yammering conglomerate cratered with unblockable Great Value ads. A poetic catastrophe awaits within this mesmeric assemblage of bankrupt trademarks and chitinous prisms."