Flowers Drink the River

Pia-Paulina Guilmoth’s Flowers Drink the River reveals a dreamscape of mud, earth, stone, forests, fields, and rivers in rural Maine. Using a large-format camera and careful analogue techniques, Guilmoth finds mystical presence in everyday surroundings: hazy images, light aberrations, glowing spectres, nocturnal animals, spider silk, and bodies suspended mid-ritual. The book spans the first two years of Guilmoth’s gender transition and her experience as a trans woman in a small right-wing town. It is an animistic search for beauty, resistance, safety, and magic—also a love letter to rural working-class people, trans women, lesbians, queer communities, and central Maine. The 80-page volume is Swiss-bound and includes a facsimile 4×5-inch contact print.