From Brian Arnold’s review on PhotoBook Journal:
It’s hard to fully describe the complexity that abounds in flowers drink the river, a book of photographs by Pia-Paulina Guilmoth, published by Stanley/Barker and designed by Ramel-Luzoir. It is a rich and compelling story about personal identity, mythology, and the mucky flesh of earth. The pictures are mysterious – with velvety blacks and wonderful monochrome technique – representing personal allegories and metaphors, an unlikely narrative built in the woods of Maine long after dark. To best explain my experience with flowers drink the river, I want to describe the first pictures encountered before getting to the title page; these alone can tell us so much about Guilmoth’s work.