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For the past seven years, Pia Paulina Guilmoth and Jesse Bull Saffire have been scavenging within a sixty-mile orbit of their home: abandoned houses collapsing into the earth, mould-streaked cardboard boxes, the hunting camp at the end of the road, a politician’s discarded gay porn collection, yard sale leftovers, a junk-shop beside the waterfall. Family photos, town reports, forgotten newspapers — fragments of lives slipping out of memory.
“Everything was done on a beat-up Xerox machine we found sitting in the rain outside the fire department on Heavy Dump Day, 2024. The pages are a rearranged scrambled up history of old mill towns and pine-shadowed villages, somewhere between antique and Y2K. Debris and rituals, chaos and celebration, mildew and domestic comfort.”
The book collects these rescues, re-assemblies, and accidents: material both tender and grotesque, mundane and uncanny. Among them are photographs taken by Pia and Jesse on 8 MP digital cameras while trespassing and scavenging for material, alongside images from Pia’s own family archive. In their hands, the cast-offs of rural central Maine transform into a jumbled chronicle — a history that never asked to be preserved, yet somehow survived, soggy and stubborn.
All in all, ‘Fishworm’ is about dykes digging through trash.
Pia lives and works in rural central Maine. She likes to lay in the dirt, be with friends, hang out with her kitties, shoot guns, and dig through debris. Her last book ‘Flowers Drink the River’ (Stanley/Barker), is a finalist for the 2025 Aperture-Paris Photo Book of the Year award.
Jesse's not an artist. She's a community organizer who helps coordinate land return to the Wabanaki Nations. She loves the woods, demolition derbies, old junk, and sitting by a river with friends
