And the air is full of spirits

Description:	lino intaglio print, dry point, and painted paper-ink. Edition of 9. My print, and the air is full of spirits is a response to a dramatic event, to death, in particular. Being alive and the next second no more, out of this world, exit… how mysterious, and very violent too. The past, the fleeting present, memories, and then life which takes over. The bodies are dead, but their spirits remain. I first roughly painted the paper with grey ink, then printed a lino-cut on the painted paper, not as a relief print, but as an intaglio print, followed by a dry point on Perspex (the dead bodies) and then finished the print with a 3rd layer, again a dry point on Perspex, but with much bolder lines (figures in motion). The strip on the left side has only one layer without dry point and could suggest the cover of a book. I live and work between London and Paris. When I read about what happened in Al-Mutanabbi Street, I was moved. People are killed, bombed all over the world and for many so-called reasons. Intentionally killing booksellers, writers, readers, poets
Origin:	2014
Created By:	Luce
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	(London, UK; Paris, France)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1270
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks

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