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Memento Mori

Item date(s): 2005

Susan Lowdermilk


Pages: unpaged (eight panels)
Size: 325mm
Technique: Block woodcuts
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #3/12

Type: Accordion fold

Place publication: Eugene, OR
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
Signed in pencil under the back cover.

Corrugated black covers with printed card pages tied together with string allowing accordion fold.

Text from William Shakespeare's 'As you like it'

The woodcut imagery appears as tick marks marking the hours or days. The vertical panels repeat yet are offset evoking an old sepia toned strip of film. Memento Mori's them reminds us of the inevitability of aging and mortality.

Ref: GB/11238



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