Rachel Smith

stopping. Or

 

This work is part of the AMBruno artist book project 'Intervals'. The project was launched at the Tate reading room and the project is part of the Tate permanent collection. This work is also collected by the Henry Moore Institute Library collection.

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This work explores the material possibilities of the full stop as an interval or break in the

process of reading and writing. A moment to take breath. The function of a full stop is to close,

consequently also to open.

 

The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze offers a source material to parse. By extracting the closing and

opening words either side of a full stop, the newly fragmented text offers spaces for the

inherent potential of the as-yet-unthought.

 

Fragmented text is interleaved by physical openings within the page space. Scaled fullstops are cut from the page surface to reveal elements of text below, or printed on transparent vellum

paper to stop the view of what is beneath. Cut textual elements are stitched back into the

page space to physically offer moveable and tangential connections across existing fragmented

phrases.

 

 

Edition of 12, plus 2 AP (signed and numbered).

Digitally printed text with individually drawn, cut, stitched, and collagraph printed elements. 

Nine loose leaves of recycled and vellum paper in a digitally printed folio cover.

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£120 

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