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Heavy Lifting

Item date(s): 2022

Felicia Rice  - (bookartist)
Teresa Whitehill  - (poems by)
Inge Bruggeman  - (foreword by)
Craig Jensen  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 395mm
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by the poet, bookbinder and the artist
Edition: Book: #34/60; Companion:320

Type: Accordion fold - complex

Place publication: Mendocino
Publisher: Moving Parts Press

Additional notes:
The limited edition artists’ book, Heavy Lifting, is the outcome of a close collaboration between artist/printer Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill. It began in 2019 with an exchange in which a poem sparked a drawing which sparked a poem which led to a book structure, then spiraled back round again. In 2020, during their early work on the project, Felicia lost her letterpress shop of over 40 years to a devastating megafire in the Santa Cruz Mountains just as the death of George Floyd trained a blazing light on the many deep-seated inequities in this country amid the global pandemic and threat of political totalitarianism. Heavy Lifting took flight in spite of and because of our personal and collective crises of this terrible time and tackles these issues in book form, performance, and dialogue in search of a tenable future.

The innovative book structure of nested accordion-fold panels features stunning poems by Theresa Whitehill in compelling conversation with prints by Felicia Rice. Inge Bruggeman writes in the preface to The Heavy Lifting Companion, “Felicia Rice has … an unsurpassed commitment to the book as a unique space for expressing artistic content…. Heavy Lifting not only demonstrates Rice’s innovative use of the artists’ book format, it reveals the unique power of this art form to unfurl within the hands of the individual, thus beautifully connecting the individual’s role to art, poetry, and the world around them.”

Reference note:
Structured clamshell case holding the components of the book in compartments.

Lower section: A Film Experiment on Heavy Lifting. Computer SD Card in brown envelope.

Middle section: The Heavy Lifting Companion. 59pp.

Top section: Heavy Lifting book. Two nested accordion-fold panels. With folding instructions on the colophon and page 56 of the Companion.

Additional material:

Single sheet. Heavy Lifting Listening Tour.

Real Estate Magazine supporting articles of local interest - in this issue Heavy Lifting.

Article on page 41 of Parenthesis #45. Autumn 2023

Exhibition notes:
leporello

JGCBA

24 Sept - 13 Dec 2024

Ref: GB/31071

Articles

Rising from the Ashes
 Felicia Rice (essay by)
   p. xiii

Different Reading, A New Art
 Inge Bruggeman (essay by)
   p. viii





   


   



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