God created the sea and painted it blue so wed feel good on it

Description:	While residing in the Deep South, I undertook a most wondrous adventure wherein I built a boat made entirely of cardboard and set about on an imaginary journey in the linoleum headwaters of my apartment. It started as cathartic play, it became this edition.I first learned to use a map while sailing. Finding myself in a space with no landmarks, I had to trust my life to those unwieldy sheets of paper with their complex representations of the ever-changing seascape. In reference to the sea, this edition’s text states, There are no markers in this/ monochromatic/ parking lot. In the absence of these markers, we become painfully aware of their significance.This work is about experience, perception, memory and the space in between composed of symbol, sound and object. This is the space of mediation, the space where significant things happenit is the ocean on which my imaginary crew and I sailed, the place for which there are no maps.--Artsist statement from Vamp &ampTramp Booksellers website (accessed July 11, 2018).The enclosed account is partially true. It is also partially fabricated. But I assure you that all of it has been vigorously documented in a most honest manner.The objects title is derived from a Bernard Moitessier quote. Motessier would have been the winner of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first round the world solo sailing competition. But as he rounded the final cape (he was in the lead) and headed north to the finish line, he had a change of heart and decided to sail on in the opposite direction. His rationale? In a note tucked in a film canister lobbed onto a passing ships deck, he stated, ...I am happy at sea, and perhaps because I want to save my soul.--ColophonI-ART: Library has copy no.28/50.
Origin:	2013
Created By:	Ray, Michelle
Publisher:	Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Michelle Ray, 2013.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/1448
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Ray, Michelle. Artists books. Artists books Florida 21st century. open fixed tunnel book handmade cotton/abaca, French Construction, and Neena Environment papers, linen and basswood enclosure

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