Medium: 'Gicle' ink jet prints on tecco fine art cotton rag hand bound and encased Pages: 310 x 450
Type: Codex Theme(s): Personal narratives. Holocaust stories.
Place publication: Johannesburg Publisher: The artist Exhibition 2017
Reference note: Pool of Tears, stands testimony to the 'Presence of Absence' and the 'Absence of Presence'.
We unearth stories- by fragments- each appearing, on different levels, to have their own significance - our imaginations in quest of the bigger picture. But, as more fragments come to surface, we are sometimes surprised at the meta-narrative which emerges.
Artist and original author as producers
Exhibition notes: The book and its original watercolours opened as 'Pool of Tears: Opening the Book'.
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg.
19 - 26 November 2016
‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.