Transcription, Transliteration, & Translation
| Description: |
open-bite acid etching with embossing. Edition of 20. The words: Al Mutannabi Starts Here is written in Sinhalese (my native Sri Lankan language) in my handwriting in all different sizes and directions. It is a reflection on the writing and reading practices of artists of different cultures and languages, whether from left to right, top to bottom or vice versa, the complex network and its trajectories of the universal collaborative effort of this project. The notion of absence and presence was represented by the inking of the negative space, allowing the non-inked writing to be revealed as white embossing. This process of using an open-bite acid etching & aquatint was selected to represent our communal effort to make a positive mark from a negative catastrophe shattering so many lives (Retrieved from IUCAT November 6, 2019). |
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| Created By: |
Perera, Sumi |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Publisher: |
(Sri Lanka/United Kingdom) |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1385 |
| Collection: |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
artists book art bookworks prints |
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