R.Sanches and S.Calvert recognized their mutual zeal for tinkering with visual communication potentials liquifying at the close of the twentieth century - their meeting under the false-flag of Intermedia catalyzed an ongoing series of conspiracies, reconceiving available formats for culture in the twenty-first...

Keying into a shared sense of sardonic awe and pressurized dread before the palpably nacent dangers of post-industrial commodity culture, we embarked on an irregular career of marathon debate sessions, invoking grand and terrible visions for novel evolutionary branches of print culture and other overlying understructures ...

Tho it can be said that one of them will tend to speculate too wildly on these occasions, a solid friendship and common ambition persists, and shared aspirations retain their sparkling horizon … Rodney consistently lends sober counsel and cogent structural pragmatism to our host's least-tethered sensibilities, in a generous and attentive spirit for which we are ever-grateful to reciprocate in friendship ...

Sanches' wryly composed and cleanly designed artists books, edition prints, commissioned design works, and web-based constructions are treasured among the most valuable items in the Calvair library…Rodney’s comically incisive economy of language and infectious gallows-élan is always insightful, invigorating and endearing. No slouch with the visual mark-makings neither, his vast archive of media works are readily available thru his perpetually redesigned Joy Websight. Especially recommended are his charmingly peculiar and pensively sly sequential-photographic 'Movies' …

Rodney has generously provided Bachelor Machines with the complete collection of his Incidental Details photo-text combines, as well as his demographic documentary Polaroid Portraits. Linked here too are downloadable pdf editions of four of Rodney’s print-on-demand book-works. Bachelor Machines is proud to host and will contintue to hype comédie concret in the R.Sanches modality …

We look gleefully forward to future feature articles tracking the quixotic adventures of our intrepid impressario Rodney Sanches…

February 2008

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April 2009 update :

Rodney has freshly provided us with these beautifully sleek new web-presentations of his four-book suite, Intersect, Protest, Sport, and Perils ... Enjoi le Joy !!