With AN INVENTION Brian Baker has drawn, painted, and collaged over every single page of H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine. Baker crafts, through image and the few words on each page left uncovered, a new novel on the trauma of World War One. Each page suggests that the true time machine Wells posits would take us back before such pain, and that his invention haunts through redaction, intergenerational trauma, reaching back through the past trying to make contact, “I tried to call to them, but they language they had was apparently different. My memory is vague.”
(Trickhouse Press, 2023)