The book-of-the-week for Week 15 is The Complexion of a Landscape... an assembly of various papers painted on the page to create landscapes through collage. The simple poem, a list of synonyms for the word pieces, alludes to the diversity of a place.
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| Cased-in cover of marbled antique book pages, silk bookcloth, collograph print |
The book includes strips of pages from an antique reference book on animals (Histoire Naturelle de Buffon de Lacepede, 1879, Tours, France), photographs from a 1956 Tour Guide of Paris, and a variety of cut-outs from pastepapers, marbled papers, collograph prints, and assorted commercial paper scraps from bins at the Orange Lantern Press studio.
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| Endpaper and Title page... |
Scraps... segments...
slices and allotments....
Fragments.....chunks
hunks and portions....
(more) hunks and chunks...
bits and cuts... divisions
fractions and fractals....
morsels and moities
pieces....parts...partitions...
A kaleidoscope of shape and color
in the complexion of a landscape,
the diagram of place.
