If We Could Make It Out Alive

Authors

Jonathan Dewanto, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Description

GRAND PURCHASE PRIZE | Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill, Grand Purchase Prize, award

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2024

Major

Experimental and Foundation Studies

Faculty / Course

Martie Holmer

Materials + Techniques

Fabric, Hand Embroidery

Student Narrative

If We Could Make It Out Alive: the pandemic and climate change. Inspired by the increasing single-use-mask waste and other COVID-related debris that were not disposed correctly, If We Could Make It Out Alive is a hand-embroidered poem book in the form of face masks. The set of five masks are detachable, and each can be worn separately. It is an expression of the bitter realities of climate change, specifically from the point of view of someone living in the tropical country of Indonesia. It is a visual representation of fright, sorrow, and being in a state of flux.

Recommended Citation

Dewanto, Jonathan; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "If We Could Make It Out Alive" (2020). 7th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2021. 12.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest7th2021/12