Pages: 210pp Size: 216mm Inscription: Signed by the artist Edition: #9/12
Place publication: Johannesburg Publisher: Artists Book ISBN: 0-14-014035-2 Cat. 241-C5b ZA Exhibition 2017
Additional notes: Altered book.
This book is a digital facsimile of an original edition of Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. The artist has replaced each letter of each word with an associated block of colour in accordance with her Graphene-colour Synaesthesia, a condition whereby her perception associates colours with words, letters of the alphabet, numbers, days of the week etc.
Medium: Digital print on paper
Penguin 1990 edition
Reference note: Winner of the 2010 Absa L'Atelier Award. The printed and bound book which sits on a pedestal is accompanied by 12 enlarged pages from the book and a collection of struggle song lyrics, also translated into colour.