Proprietary Method / June July - Tess Brown-Lavoie (Cutt Press) MIT Press Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch

At each exhibition opening

As Jehad wrote: ‘these are words among tents of displacement

she spent two years visiting different parts of the country

Proprietary Method / June July - Tess Brown-Lavoie (Cutt Press) MIT Press Published by Kiepenheuer & WitschProprietary Method June July is a handmade chapbook written by Tess Brown Lavoie, and produced by Cutt Press in collaboration with Chertldde Books. Proprietary Method (2025) undertakes the systems embedded in abstract paintings: material processes, emergent narrative, and commodity valuation. The essaying poem follows a studio visit with Tyra Tingleff in Berlin, and studies how abstract surfaces hold off meaning or conclusion in favor of durational