Making Bread (not bombs)
Tara Bryan, Canada

               

Making Bread (not bombs); Tara Bryan, Flatrock, NL, Canada, May 2013 Making Bread (not bombs) has grown out of my attempt to find an authentic response to the al-Mutanabbi Street bombing, an incomprehensible act outside my realm of experience, and unthinkable to my sensibilities. Researching the history of bread for another project, I was led to the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, hence back to Iraq, and the attack on the street of booksellers. That the “Cradle of Civilization” has seen the development of culture, conflict, and conquest for millennia provided me with the seed for creating this work: a two-sided book - one side devoted to bread, the other to bombs. Dimensions 6" x 4"; Medium: Inkjet printed on Red River Premium Matte, laser cut and scored, hand folded and glued. Cave paper wrapper, linen twine. Tara Bryan started making books while working on a Master of Fine Arts at UW-Madison. She took numerous workshops through the work-study program at the Center for Book Arts in NY, and is the proprietor of walking bird press. Photographs of the book by Ned Pratt Watch a video of a laser cutting one of the printed sheets for the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ms3G56xMJE taratbryan@gmail.com www.tarabryan.com