Altered Book For Al-Mutanabbi St.

Description:	Medium: Book, bookboard, cloth, acrylic paint. Although my early years were spent in mathematics, computing, graphics and the print industry, a life-changing experience at age 40 prompted me to follow my heart, and I took courses at the art schools at TAFE and Curtin University. While still influenced by my pre-art school experiences, my art work is primarily a personal reflection on modern landscape, while raising larger philosophical questions. My work has been included in local, national and international exhibitions, and I have also participated in many collaborative projects. My Altered book for Al-Mutanabbi is about the emptiness of destruction, and the inner void of depression. It is about not judging a book by its cover. Art-making is personal. It is as much about the state of mind of the artist as the physical thing being made. I began this project seeing the potential for a fresh beginning, like flowers blooming after a drought. Then, auto-immune, my body began to attack itself. I looked the same on the outside, but my mind became a dark place. I stopped, thought again and started over.I dont think we need books that are about war and peace in a general way, we need books that say to people Come and see what happened here... How do you create a book that is a lament and a celebration of the idea of books, at the same time? How do you take what is essentially a personal and interior art, and use it to make a social statement in very public venues?
Origin:	2012
Created By:	Williams, Amanda
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/769
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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