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Pearls

Raking Leaves
Price
$36.00
Date
2008
Publisher
Raking Leaves
Format
Artists' Books
Details
204
ISBN
978-0-9556670-4
Size
20.5 × 25 cm
Description

“Pearls” is a photographic record of Simryn Gill’s ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each on unique and particular to the specific volume from which it has been created. Titles as far ranging as Gandhi’s autobiography, Sylvia Path’s “The Bell Jar”, “The Beano Book” and Che Guevara’s “Bolivian Diaries” form a selection of the printed matter used by the artist to create a rich a stirring collection of objects.

Includes two short texts by the artist.

  1. Pearls
 

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