L oo p / Caren Florance
- Bib ID:
- 8177789
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Florance, Caren, 1967-, book artist
- Description:
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- Canberra, Australia : Ampersand Duck, 2019
- 1 volume (42 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Summary:
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“L OO P is a book based on a series of poems about birds and the disrupting of their international migration patterns. There isn’t a bird in my book. It is bereft of living things. There is a lot of frustration, fear and questioning. It is a book about the climate change emergency, pushing poet John Bennett’s quiet, polite worries into desperate territory. The books look battered because they are: the Chinese papers, pristine when I found them on a trip to Hangzhou, China, have been carried home in my luggage and through three house moves. They show their travel. I have pared the text down into chunks, printed wood and metal text with its back turned, plundered ‘hell type’ and printed it in white so that it shows fleetingly in the hand’s motion, and drawn and erased through the book to give it a sense of my anger and futility. The book needs to be turned to read it through. There to here; here to there.” —Caren Florance.
- Notes:
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- “Based on ‘Overwintering’, 2018, 26 poems by John Bennett.” —Colophon.
- “For BookArtObject edition 5” —Colophon.
- Handset letterpress and mixed media on Stonehenge Black, Chinese papers and found maps.
- Edition of 16 copies, signed by the artist.
- National Library of Australia copy is no. 12/16 and is accompanied by an artist’s statement.
- Binding:
- Handstitched dos-à-dos codex.
- Awards:
- Finalist, 2020 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Loop
- Exhibited:
- The Overwintering Project exhibition, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, 6 December 2019 to 8 February 2020.
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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