Sea of Lanterns
A duet in 26 parts
Sea of Lanterns is a collaboration with writer Anne Michaels. The artist’s book consists of 26 folios: some with text only, others with image only, folios with text and image, sometimes, three pages, sometimes two. Although there is an order, the reader can decide the order at leisure. Sea of Lanterns is an intimate experience of discovery, an experience of reading images and words. Memory fragments.
This project is a conversation between image and language;
what emerges and what is unspoken.
The writer addresses the images
and the maker of these images. Sometimes in a conversation one falls silent,
sometimes we want to show something to the other.
2011, edition of 20
6 x 6 inches, unbound book made up of 26 folios with colophon folio presented in a box
Poem by Anne Michaels
Prints available upon request
Collections
American Academy in Rome, Art Gallery of Ontario, Banff Center, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque Nationale de Québec, Columbia University, Lafayette College, McGill University, Saison Poetry Library London/National Poetry Library London, Stanford University, University of Arizona, University of Montréal, University of Toronto
Exhibitions
Artists’ Books: Focus on Photography, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tuczon, Arizona, 2019
Ewa Monika Zebrowski: Seven Artist’s Books, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, 2015
Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2015
Livre d’Artiste d’Aujourd’hui: Interdisciplinary Collaborations, The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York & Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida, 2014
A Death Greatly Exaggerated: Canada’s Thriving Small and Fine Press, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Ontario, 2013
on the margins, Doverrode Book Festival & Symposium, Hurup Thy, Denmark, 2012
Press
An unbound book: Sea of Lanterns, Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG), Book Arts / Arts du Livre Canada Magazine, vol. 4, no. 1, 2013
Review of END OF BEATY and Sea of Lanterns, Book Arts Newsletter (ed. Sarah Bodman), no. 67, August-September 2011