The Needle Sings to the Book 2011
Mario Laplante (artist) Lois Marie Harrod (poet), USA
| Mario Laplante (artist),
San Francisco, USA, Fall 2011 Lois Marie Harrod (poet), New Jersey, USA In "The Needle Sings to the Book," the needle and the thread provide the central image. Although the project itself is a folding book rather than a book with fascicles, the poem uses the image of stitching pages together to comment on the nature of truth, its uncertainties and ambiguities. The poem also attempts to sing for the needles that stitched the underside of Japanese needlework patches that Mario Laplante used as a source for the project artwork. Art sings to art. If we are lucky, the needle sings to the book long after the needle-worker disappears. Panel book wrapped in a portfolio containing photographs printed with Archival inks on Masa Japanese paper and letterpress. Dimensions: H: 6 3/4" W: 6 3/4" D: 1 1/8" Lois Marie Harrod, Hopewell, New Jersey, USA Lois Marie Harrod's Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis is forthcoming from Cherry Grove Press in 2013. Her The Only Is won the 2012 Tennessee Chapbook Contest and her 11th book, Brief Term, poems about teachers and teaching, was published in 2011. Widely published in literary journals and online, she teaches part-time at The College of New Jersey.  www.loismarieharrod.com lmharrod1@verizon.netMario Laplante I am French Canadian and have been living in the US for the past 20 years. I work in a variety of media: installation, printmaking, and artists’ books. My professional career as an artist and art educator began in the US in 1989 at Ohio State University until I began my first tenure track position at San Francisco State University in 1996 where I am currently a full professor and the head of the printmaking area. As an artist, I was trained as a printmaker and a book artist at the University of Wisconsin where I graduated with an MFA in 1989. My books and prints have been included in national and international art exhibitions in the last few years. Curators have acquired my work for several artist book collection including: the Bibliotheque National du Canada, Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Library of Congress, Yale University, the New York Library, the Tate Gallery in London and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. mariolaplante.com Laplante@sfsu.edu |