Words Fly Away
C.J. Shane, USA
| Words Fly Away;
C.J. Shane, Arizona, USA, 2013 My book is a celebration of the enduring power of human expression. Despite efforts to suppress ideas by burning books that hold the ideas, the words carrying the ideas will always escape and live on. As First Century AD Rabbi Akiba says, “The pages burn, but the words fly away.” My book focuses on the word “word” written in 44 languages as we see the words fly away. They are accompanied by iridescent butterflies which guard the words' flight into a new form. In much smaller print is a listing of book burnings ending with the latest in Mali in 2013. The burnings are minimized by the glorious flight of enduring words. Words Fly Away is a boustrophedon structure created from one piece of Rives Heavy Weight paper. Stamps, ink, and acrylic paint were used on interior pages to create words and images. The colophon is sewn into the book. This book was created in an edition of 8. Dimensions: 5.25” x 3.75” x .5” closed; 5.25” x 3.75” x 42” open. Edition of 8; Medium: Rives paper, ink, acrylic. C.J. Shane is an artist and writer living in Tucson, Arizona, USA, in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. She is an oil painter, relief printmaker, and book artist. She is also the author of seven trade books. www.cjshane.com shane@cjshane.com |