Tender Noted

Tender Noted is a meditation on the intersection of desire, mourning, and listening to one's skin, exploring the practice of love through images and writing. Shala Miller's interdisciplinary work brings together filmic and photographic practices, informed by her writing. The book examines the echo between text and image, bodies, and the stages, rooms, and affects they inhabit. Miller holds space for the body's vulnerabilities and maladies, asking what types of speech, postures, and practices define the self within the entanglement of relation. The book has received praise for its exploration of grief and the blue note in text, image, and quiet shrills and wails.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 31 December 2021
Publisher: Wendy's Subway

Tender Noted is a contemplation on the convergence of desire, grief, and listening to one's skin as it explores the practice of love. This interdisciplinary work combines images from Miller's filmic and photographic practice, informed by and given voice to by Miller's writing. The book's organizing principle is the echo: between text and image and between bodies and the stages, rooms, and affects they inhabit. Miller holds space for the body's vulnerabilities and its maladies, moving between poems and lists, diaristic writing, and plays that feature characters such as Mrs. Lovely. Miller asks what types of speech, postures, and practices define the self within the entanglement of relation. Tender Noted is a study on love in its everyday pain and pleasure. About the author Shala Miller, also known by the performance moniker "Freddie June" when she sings, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. At around the age of ten or eleven, Miller discovered quietude, the kind you're sort of pushed into, and then was fooled into thinking that this is where they should stay put. Since then, Miller has been trying to find their way out and find their way into an understanding of herself and her history, using photography, video, writing, acting, and singing as aids in this process. Miller holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they studied photography, film, video, and writing, and has studied under filmmaker Lucrecia Martel in Barcelona as part of La Selvas film workshop "Sounds of Summer." They received a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and participated in the New York Film Festival's Artist Academy.

Weight: 434g
Dimension: 235 x 323 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781735924229