Mepaintsme - Dead Fingers Trace

Mepaintsme - Dead Fingers Trace / With an essay by artist and psychiatrist Martin Wilner and an in-depth interview with mepaintsme / 92-page paperback, 6 x 8 inches, color illustrations, published in 2026 by Rotland Press

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A monograph that collects the drawings of the artist known as mepaintsme, whose work mines the visual textures of mid-century printed matter, while steeped in anxiety and horror.

The book DEAD FINGERS TRACE surveys a formidable body of works on paper, reproduced with every bit of folding, foxing, staining, tearing, and yellowing within them, to convey an inherent sense of mortal fragility.

"Mepaintsme works in the super-delicious sweet spot where clean minimalist lines intersect with a high density of incident upon a patchwork field messy with medium corrections–the whole resulting in hilarious, darkly joyous miseries that come at the viewer in wave upon wave of elegance and ingeniously cruel invention! In each work, the artist balances the superabundant contradictions of our personal feelings upon the tip of a finger in deceptively weighty, laugh-out-loud scenarios! I love love LOVE this brilliant work!!!" —Guy Maddin, filmmaker, author, and artist

"There is a familiarity to the visages of mepaintsme–perhaps hauntings from the ghosts of Charles Addams or Chester Gould. Careful though, as you step over their dissected corpses. Informed by the thousands of pictures culled over, through his practice as an image collector, the result are these wonderfully intimate drawings of struggle, intrigue, and double-cross." —Matt Leines, artist and designer