Studio of Exhaustion


Clifton Meador


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Ruin











Digitally printed 
72 pages, hand sewn with exposed spine  
9.125 by 13.125 inches
2026
Edition of 30

Project statement




Visit Maine











Digitally printed 
7 postcards and a wrapper 
6 by 4 inches
2026

A set of seven postcards documenting the widely ignored and poorly understood windowless vernacular architecture of Mid-Coast Maine. This set documents examples of Neodefenestrationism, Defenestration Revivalism, and Reformed Domestic Defenestrationism, as well as the most radical version, Antistomatonism.





Circus of the Spectacle











Digitally printed with a digitally printed hard cover
40 removable pages in a menu-style binding
9.5 by 12 inches
2026
Edition of 30

Project statement



OAK to CHI










Print on Demand
620 pages
4.25 x 6.875 inches
2026

Riding the Amtrak Zephyr from Emeryville to Chicago, three days and two nights. I stared out the window and took pictures, 1,200 at least. The window of the compartment seemed like a frame for a vision of America, but it is impossible to see the window and the landscape at the same time. I used a defective halftone process to make this obvious.



Offset lithography in multiple colors
208 pages
Hand sewn and case-bound by John DeMerritt
8.25 by 11.25 inches 
Edition of 80
2025

Project statement