...as if God had uttered unnecessary words
| Description: |
reduction woodblock 3-color hand print on handmade paper. Edition of 5. While gathering inspiration for the print, I had a few conversations over coffee with Jafar Mahallati, Scholar in Islamic Studies at Oberlin College, and he elaborated this poetic verse that deems killing as blasphemy because it is an arbitrary destruction of pages of the book of God. A reduction print allowed me to represent people and then carve them out in chunks like bodies dismembered by an explosion, the super-imposition of colors resulting in a visual disturbance, a moirée. The paper was handmade at the Morgan Conservatory Hanji studio by mixing locally-grown Kozo fiber with Philipine Gampi (Retrieved from IUCAT November 6, 2019). |
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| Origin: | 2014 |
| Created By: |
Orso-Giacone, Claudio; Mahallati, Ja'far |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Publisher: |
(Oberlin, OH, USA) |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1401 |
| 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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