Lost Books series: Book 2, Book 3, & Book 4 2012
Robbin Ami Silverberg, USA
| Lost Books series: Book
2, Book 3, & Book 4, Robbin Ami Silverberg,
Brooklyn, USA Photo credit: Cheyeon Park The tragedy of lost life and of the bookseller community of Al- Mutanabbi Street was the catalyst for these 'lost books'. Catalogue cards from the Brooklyn Museum Libraries were an obvious choice to reference the books destroyed and missing. So I sat with the cards, read hundreds, searching out those that related by content to create interesting texts. Using acrylic paint as 'white-out' I continued to develop the 'story-lines'. Paper was made with inclusions of written & drawn elements, and the book cloth was purposely stained. The resulting series honours all that was lost by making new books from those ruins. Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm. Library catalogue cards, paint, ink & archival inkjet on Dobbin Mill paper with inclusions, stained book cloth, staples Robbin Ami Silverberg is founding director of Dobbin Mill, a hand- papermaking studio, and Dobbin Books, a collaborative artist book studio. Her artwork is divided between artist books and installations. The work conceptually focuses on word cognition and interlinearity, with an emphasis on process and paper as activated substrate. Silverberg has exhibited and taught extensively in the US and abroad. Her artwork is found in numerous collections, such as the Museum Meermanno, Holland and Yale University. She is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and on the boards of the Center for Book Arts, NY, Ampersand Foundation, & Booklyn Artist Alliance. Dobbinmill@earthlink.net www.robbinamisilverberg.com |