Blood High Star (Burnt Harbors) (Collector's Edition)

A5 Softcover Artbook
Tintoretto Gesso cover
Perfect-bound
64pp

C40 cassette
Transparent smoke-coloured shell 
White silkscreen lettering
Clear case
J-Card

Artist-made insert & download card

Edition of 25

Numbered & signed

Further dispatches from CF Moore, this time under the pseudonym Burnt Harbors — the name change signalling a shift of focus away from the Imperial Valley region of Southern California.

 

Side A’s ‘Notes on another requiem’ ventures northwards into the deserts of Nevada, culminating in snatches of a speech recorded at the first ‘No Kings’ protest on June 14, 2025. The recording ends with the lines ‘authoritarians are never satisfied with the power that they have, and so they test the bounds, they push the limits, they break the law.’ 

 

​Side B’s ‘En el valle, las sombras’ journeys south of the US border and into the Chihuahuan desert. It closes with the voice of Chihuahuan poet Gaspar Orozco, reading from his work ‘Hojas de un cuaderno Híkuri’. In it, Orozco recalls his own journey into the wilderness in search of híkuri (peyote) — a plant with deep spiritual significance for the Rarámuri and Wixarica Indigenous peoples of Mexico.

 

This Collector's Edition includes an artbook of 'revisioned' public-domain photographs from the Library of Congress ‘Historic American Buildings Survey’ and ‘Historic American Engineering Record’. The artbook also features declassified CIA transcripts relating to the 'democracy against totalitarianism' movement, as well as Moore's typewritten marginalia and Orozco's handwritten poem notes. Additionally, each artbook has been rendered unique by various interventions from CF Moore himself, including annotations, micro-collages and image-works.