Elegies 2012
Sue Huggins Leopard, USA
| Sue Huggins Leopard,
Leopard Studio Editions, Rochester, NY, USA, 2012 Elegies uses part of a poem titled Elegy on the death of the mother of Saif al Daula, written by al-Mutanabbi in the year 948. Although written by the great poet in an age seemingly vanished and separated from the car bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad by more than a thousand years, the words remain very moving and speak powerfully to the universal themes of mourning and the futility of violence. I echoed these lines with words by an imagined poet in 2007. A poet who I imagined might be like a young person who would frequent a street of booksellers. A poet with a potential to see beauty; to speak. The book is pamphlet stitched, mounted between boards with a fold out, bees-waxed drawing. The materials and the quiet greys and tans of the papers are intended to convey an elegiac tone and reflect the desert imagery and passing of the ages; To mourn the loss. To remember, in spite of all the pain. Sue Huggins Leopard Leopard Studio Editions Rochester, NY Leopard Studio Editions, the Press of Sue Huggins Leopard, exhibits nationally and internationally and is included in private and public collections, including those of The NMWA, The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY, RIT Libraries, The University of Rochester, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and The University of Washington among others. Work from the series, Past Surmise, Twelve Poems by Emily Dickinson, is currently on exhibit at The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, through September 16, 2012. sueleopard@mac.com |