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Learning the Truth

Item date(s): 2000

Joan Soppe  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 300mm
Edition: Unique


Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
11.75" x 10" x 4". Eighteen watermarked handmade leaves from abaca in several shades, most with images in the paper. The covers are both 30mm thick. The front cover is black board filled with magnifying-glass covered holes painted pink around their rims. There are objects or text in each recess which can be viewed through the glass opening. The inner light green front board has a perspex strip which rests on three children's blocks on the corresponding inner back cover board. The three blocks have the letters "H", "E", and "R" on their top. On the back endboard is a rectangular recessed space covered with glass which contains a pair of pink plastic scissors. A perforted copper strip connects the inner board with the black back board. Exposed sewn spine with some beads in the two outer cords and two long 50ml glass tubes containing handmade paper with text or illustrations rolled up in the tubes to form a feature of the binding. Cream linen dropback box with black board sides .

Soppe writes: "When making this book I thought about how objects evoke memory. Things aren't always as they seem - perhaps we need to take a closer look. I made thin sheets of abaca - almost wing like. I loved the journey I took in creating the form of this book."

STORED IN EAST STOREROOM - TOP SHELF.

Ref: GB/10924







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