Folded hard cover opens to reveal accordion fold pages of poems; If pages are turned to the left the poems can be read, but if the pages are opened to the right they are blacked out; Each poem is dated and numbered; Case contains CD of poems being read by the author
Folded hard cover opens to reveal accordion fold pages of poems; If pages are turned to the left the poems can be read, but if the pages are opened to the right they are blacked out; Each poem is dated and numbered; Case contains CD of poems being read by the author, Signed by the artists Lazar and Bruggman
Title from colophon booklet; 50 letters created by Elsi Vassdal Ellis written between Sept. 11, 2001 and Mar. 11, 2002, to Mohamed Atta, one of the hijackers believed to be at the controls of American Airlines Flight 11 that flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001; Each letter is 1 folded sheet and is in separate envelope, stamped and addressed Mohammed Atta, World Trade Center, New York, New York , with return address label EVE, Harmony Road, USA. ;Accompanied by colophon booklet, sewn in black wraps, in envelope; Issued in red and gold box (13 x 26 cm.), with letter opener, UO A&AA Library has copy no. 12 (Majed Moqed), signed by the artist
Screen printed images on thin fibrous paper; Two pages fold down from main section of book; Includes nylon pouch containing four appliques, Signed by both artists
Book consists of a Marlboro cigarette box containing 20 cigarettes, each with one bullet-tipped end and one filter-tipped end. The cigarettes are arranged with 19 having the bullet-tipped ends pointing up, and 1 having the filter-tipped end pointing up., Submitted to fulfill requirement of the University of Oregon, Dept. of Fine and Applied Arts, Artists' Books course
Consists of 12 printed paper cards, 9 are 8 x 6 cm. rectangles, 2 are slightly smaller triangle shaped, and one is smaller curved shaped. Each card is printed from Staedtler's Master, carved into oriental paper, hand-lettered onto Nideggen and grommeted end to end to form a snake-like shape. Colored string is also glued to each card. They are bound in sharkskin over board on the back side. On the front side, hand lettering on the edges of each card tells why snakes are not nice. The cards can be folded down to 6 x 8 x 5 cm and put into the burgandy colored cloth bag (16 x 10 cm.) they were supplied in. Title from sharkskin side of the piece, on the card representing the snake's head. Laser-cutting by Julie Chen.
Each page of this book is made of heavy card stock, gold on one side, and letterpress printed on the other. Some pages have additional irregularly shaped circular or oval cut outs stitched to the surfaces. All thirty-six 4 x 6 inch pages are stitched together in three rows of 13 to create a large rectangle when the book is fully unfolded. When closed the rows are folded lengthwise first then folded accordion style page by page to create a 4 x 6 inch 36-page deep book which is housed in a clamshell case. Ordinary black sewing thread is used in a back stitch to create an organic pattern over all of the pages when the book is opened, and these lines of embroidery create the connective stitches between pages. At one end of the book two pieces of thread extend beyond the pages' ends and both threads have loops at their ends so that the book can be hung, one-sided from T-pins on the wall, or two-sidded from cup hooks on the celing. Issued in a lipped clam shell box with a letterpress printed and stitched image on the cover. There is no text in this book, no title, colophon or signiture. In the title, Hannah Arendt refers to the German-American philosopher Johanna , Title, author statement, and imprint information from White Lotus Gallery website
"Linda Welch's Concealed Within books are a series of unique, un-openable book objects bound with wax and cord made from mixed media. Each book is housed in a matching slipcase. Book and box contain a matching number, word or code signifying the title of each work"--23 Sandy Gallery website. "Medium/materials, painting, screen printing, collage, wax"--23 Sandy Gallery website. Issued in collage-decorated case.
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