Chronotype

Description:	Edition of 5; Laser-cut Arches Paper in a Cherry Wood Box - Each page 7x10 - Box dimensions 7.5x10.5x2.5 Chronotope is a literary term used to describe the link between time and space in language. My cut paper book by the same name was made in response to the 2007 bombing of al-Mutannabi Street and seeks to capture the sense of time suspended that I imagine in the first moments following the bombing. The immediate aftermath of a tragic event is often marked by a sense of dreamlike awareness. I attempt to describe this psychological state through the progression, repetition, and layering of passages of cut marks. The laser-cut marks, like scars on the page, have charred edges evocative of the burned paper of books destroyed during the bombing, and they create a non-objective narrative in which spaces appear to crystallize on the verge of dissolving. As I imagine the charred paper remnants of destroyed books coalescing and scattering in the air of Al-Mutanabbi street, the marks in Chronotope gather and disperse, recalling the fusing of past and present, time and space, in that incomprehensible moment.
Origin:	2012
Created By:	Caine, Jennifer
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/256
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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