Burned Book Sculpture, John Donne
Sarah Rhys, UK
| Burned Book Sculpture,
John Donne, Sarah Rhys, Bristol, UK, 31st
October 2012 Three altered books of Penguin poetry The burnt books are a homage to the books burnt and damaged by the bombings in al-Mutanabbi street. I imagine myself there finding half burned books, and after the horror, reading extraordinary fragments of texts. My acts of book burning are inverted demonstrations against censorship and cultural cleansing. Medium. Penguin book and fire. Dimensions 18 x 11 x 1.5 cm Sarah Rhys is an artist who works in a variety of media. She is interested in trace, erasure, memory and place. She is currently on the MA Multi-Disciplinary Print at The University of The West of England where she runs the Artist's Book Club. Recent work has involved using fire as a method of erasure. www.rhysstudio.org |