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Publication Date
2019
Keywords
artists' books, Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest, sixth
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Undergraduate student
Year of Graduation
2023
Major
Printmaking
Faculty / Course
Clement Valla
Materials + Techniques
Cotton, wood, clay, laser cut
Student Narrative
Love does not seem to be a emotion or state or a item for me, it feels more like a distant place, a location so detached from any normal experience in life that ends up with no-one having enough confidence to define it as a location rather than cognizing it as something ambiguous like feelings. But here, it’s tender land. It’s as exotic as the books on the very top of a shelf. Love poem then becomes more like a bridge or map that retains the trace back to that specific spot in time, or, a token, of softness, vagueness, of that dissolving landscape of memory. Like all bedtime stories. This artists' book is a love poem. It’s about unfolding, unraveling, about wearing away of time and recollecting. It’s about all tenderness in love encapsulated and all tenderness about tracing it. I heard the herd marching, spring springing, and I’m trying to reproduce this fragment of that time-scape. It’s not about me, or anyone, it’s about love, this specific love of mine, this piece of land and its soft rhyme murmuring deep inside us me.
Recommended Citation
Zhu, Xu (Susie); Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Unfold: A love poem to Mars" (2019). 6th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2020. 64.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest6th2020/64