Jay Isaac, Glyphosate (2026)

Jay Isaac
Glyphosate
2026
128 pages in black and white
Paperback
Perfect bound
Edition of 50
11 x 8.5 inches
Signed and editioned 
 
Editions available: 18-25
Also available are PDF copies for $5
 
 
Glyphosate is a book project that documents my advocacy to ban forestry related herbicide spraying in the rural community of Fundy St. Martins, New Brunswick. The book consists of photographs that I have taken of logging activities as well as images of hand painted, anti-herbicide spraying signs that I created and installed at the entrances to clear cuts. There is an excerpt about tree spiking from Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, to illustrate some of the more aggressive tactics taken by environmental activists in the past. The book also contains numerous emails exchanged between me and several key proponents of herbicide spraying in the province. 
 
In addition to being a document related to the clear cutting and herbicide spraying happening yearly in Fundy St. Martins, Glyphosate contains a larger narrative that relates to the speculative fiction/plausible reality that the paintings in my 2025 painting series Sunchoke communicate. This extended narrative recounts attempts to curtail environmental degradation, the failure of these efforts, inevitable ecological collapse, and the establishment of an autonomous natural world liberated from human domination. Glyphosate also exists as the exhibition catalogue for Sunchoke, with reproductions of each painting included.