Sarthak Kathuria M.F.A. graphic design and visual experience, New Delhi, India Greetings from Georgia: The Peach State This book is a data visualization project. It takes the shape of a souvenir book, with the aim of informing Georgia tourists about the true implications of the overly glorified “Georgia� fruit as we dig deeper in time (1790-1920). The book is perfect-bound, and the cover is printed on velvet to simulate the tactility of a real peach. When looked at from the side, the book is a graph in time, showing an increase in slavery that coincides with increasing peach acreage, from 1790-1920. As one goes deeper, the book starts to reveal the horrific history of slavery in Georgia, almost metaphorically peeling through the skin of the peach. The book tries to hint at the grave equivalence between the commodification of peaches and the commodification of human life. 4
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