Liber Sum, Sum Liber

Description:	Printed in an edition of 3.Originally a painter, I have been making artists books for 20 years: mostly woodcut books, but also collagraphs and drypoint. Editions range from 30-3, and I have made some single sculptural pieces, like BlueBeards castle and Beauty and the beast, and one large installation, The falcon bride. Some books are codex or concertina format, some use cut-out or pop-up techniques or turn into carousels. Sometimes the box or slipcase is an artwork in itself. My work has been bought by individual and institutional collections across the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, including the V&A National Art Library, British Library, Tate and the American Library of Congress. I show regularly at the Whitechapel London Art Book Fair and Oxford Fine Press Fair and others - you can check the news link or my blog to see where I am exhibiting next. Three books made to commemorate Al-Mutanabbi Street. To design a book for such a project is fraught with pitfalls; sentiment can become sentimental; cultural differences can conceal pitfalls. Books inspire words, although form and images can be enough. I am aware of my ignorance of all the glories of Arabic literature. I have used words from three poets, Rumi, Hafez and our contemporary Hamid Mokhtar, which can be construed many ways and may promote debate. For all people, books in their many differing forms, are repositories, vital, precious, life blood. On the covers I have used the Latin tag - Liber sum, sum liber - I am free, I am a book.
Origin:	2012
Created By:	Trant, Carolyn
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/754
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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