BOOK

what opens—like a blaze of fire

Colleborated with Charles Matson Lume (artist), Joyce Sutphen (poet), Galilee Peaches (artist)
The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, 2021

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The art book is treated as part of the object and artwork, mirroring and responding to the visual artist's concept of installation at the exhibition, the environment, the site, the book title, and the poetry of two female poets.

It also opens up free visual interpretation from a graphic design perspective to experiment with form, format, color, graphic components and elements, and the final representation, extending the possibilities of elements being held/contained across different media, spaces/platform between.

There are three parts to the book that create the feel of small, silky smoke rising from the thick, heavy ashes beneath the burning. The middle part of the book seeks to convey the poetry's words and feelings, and the artist's images, floating together in the spaces between.

You can sense it when you flip the pages and move your eyes page by page. The work can be seen as a collective dialogue among the artist, designer, and poet, presented as a book and carried around during or after the exhibition, as it is and continues to transcend the concept of the artist initially.

There'll be 250 free copies of the books available for collection during the exhibition, and attendees can carry them as they walk through the work. Or they can take it home to refresh or recreate the afterimage formed after reviewing the exhibition. The impact of visual reading will continue once they leave the site. It is also a gesture of love and care between family and the art community.


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