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Description:	linocut. Edition of 5. I am a Manchester-based art student, currently in my second year. I am interested in and inspired primarily by people and their stories. I have recently been made the Artist-in-Residence at a Manchester based human rights organisation called RAPAR, and before that, I was volunteering in close contact with the previous Artist-in-Residence. Through RAPAR, I have been involved in work with refugees from the Middle East. I initially became interested in Al Mutanabbi after visiting the John Rylands book exhibition (I was prompted to visit through my work with RAPAR and interest in the Middle East). I was intrigued by the way that the project focuses so intently on one single event, it doesn’t commemorate the bombing at all, simply documents it with the wish to make a change - or so it seems to me. I love the idea that art can be used to make a difference, and I want to make art that can change the world (even in a tiny way). I was inspired by a poem within the Al Mutanabbi Street Anthology called Ways to count the dead by Persis M. Khan. I wanted to find a way to document the loss of life; be that the life of a person, idea, book, piece of art. My piece is a linocut print, made in Devon, using a Columbian Eagle Press. Before this project I had very rarely used print, and for a while I struggled with the unknown that is print, and what I saw as a lack of control. However in the end, I found that I very much enjoyed that! The way that the lino works, the fact that you dont know exactly what you are printing until its done, adds to something that is very important to me in my work; I want my work to be open to the interpretation of the viewer, my idea and wishes should be only one part of what makes up the piece. In this linocut print the press and the lino got to add their ideas and wishes. To me, my print is an abstract representation of many crosses - or kisses- each one the simple documentation of a life (Retrieved from IUCAT November 8, 2019).
Created By:	Ripley, Carina
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	(Devon, UK)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1510
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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