Usylessly, edition one

Perhaps the first painting of Joyce’s Ulysses appears in Paul Cadmus’s portrait of his lover Jerry French (1931). ‘The love that dare not speak its name’, symbolised by a banned, forbidden book

‘On one of the walls of Joyce’s flat in Zurich, was pinned a photograph of a Greek statue of Penelope’ (Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, 1960)

A library trolley holding over 40 copies of the first edition of Ulysses in The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Peter O’Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), his ‘impossibly blue’ Irish eyes appearing like hydrating oases in the Arabian desert

The book lab, The Harry Ransom Center, Austin

Usylessly, edition one at the binders, Verona Libri, Verona, Italy, 2021

Exhibition view of Usylessly, edition one at HEAD Geneva, 2022

‘Joyce … had brought with him a package containing his copy of Ulysses, and placed it under his chair’ (Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 1959).
Exhibition view of Usylessly, edition one at HEAD Geneva, 2022