Due to Unspeakable Reasons (PREORDER)

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Hardcover, 7×9”, 128 pages

Photographs and text by Makia Sharp

SHIPPING LATE SUMMER 2026

Due to Unspeakable Reasons is a photographic meditation on the gaps, absences, and distortions that shape the artist’s history as a Korean adoptee. The book draws on photographs made during her recent return to Korea. The photographed sites tied to the artist’s early history have been altered, demolished, or can no longer be definitively identified. Rather than reconstructing a coherent past, the images register obstruction and disappearance — the difficulty of searching for something that may no longer exist, or may never have existed as recorded.

Throughout the book, text extracted from the artist’s adoption records interrupts and overlays photographic space. These textual fragments introduce their own uncertainties, shaped by translation, institutional logic, and omission. Together, image and text hold open the tension between what is recorded, what is remembered, and what remains unknowable.

Hardcover, 7×9”, 128 pages

Photographs and text by Makia Sharp

SHIPPING LATE SUMMER 2026

Due to Unspeakable Reasons is a photographic meditation on the gaps, absences, and distortions that shape the artist’s history as a Korean adoptee. The book draws on photographs made during her recent return to Korea. The photographed sites tied to the artist’s early history have been altered, demolished, or can no longer be definitively identified. Rather than reconstructing a coherent past, the images register obstruction and disappearance — the difficulty of searching for something that may no longer exist, or may never have existed as recorded.

Throughout the book, text extracted from the artist’s adoption records interrupts and overlays photographic space. These textual fragments introduce their own uncertainties, shaped by translation, institutional logic, and omission. Together, image and text hold open the tension between what is recorded, what is remembered, and what remains unknowable.

Makia Sharp is an interdisciplinary artist living and practicing between San Luis Obispo and the Bay Area. She received her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. Makia has shown her work in solo and group shows nationally and internationally. Recent shows include San Francisco and Salt Lake City at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Prior to teaching in the Photo/Video area at Cal Poly, Makia taught at California College of the Arts where she was awarded the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship.