River of Reading
| Description: |
River of Reading (2012) , 3 unique volumes. 7 x 7 x 1 inches closed, 7 x 42 inches openFolding screen: paper with covers made from synthetic stucco sample boardsSue Sommers is an artist and publication designer in Pinedale, Wyoming. She lives beside the Green River, one of the major watercourses of the American West, and loves to read. Sue has exhibited nationally since the 1980s, with bodies of work in painting, book art and small sculpture. Her work hangs permanently in the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne; she is a Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship winner, and she is a founder of the Pipeline Art Project: “Pumping Art from the Energy State of Wyoming.” Pipeline exhibited at Red Dot Fair during Miami Artweek in 2011. In River of Reading, my three volume book for this project, I share with the people of al-Mutanabbi Street the idea that the flow of the written word makes a river - like the Green River near my home, and the Tigris through Baghdad. This river sustains us all; our poetry and prose keeps us human. That is why we should “never let the river run dry.” I drew from a topographical map of the Green River, and added titles of my favourite volumes as randomly scattered landmarks. There wasn’t room for all the books I love, of course. |
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| Origin: | 2012 |
| Created By: |
Sommers, Sue |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/671 |
| 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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This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.