Seas of the Moon

Creator

Katharine Meynell
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Files

Creation Date

1988

Keywords

Moon in art, Lunar astronomy, Childbirth, Poetry, artists' books

Description

hand sewn signatures with metallic paper hand stitched to the cover pages, book enclosed in a denim cloth slipcase; cover; title page; interior spreads. Images of the poetically named "seas" of the moon's surface are conveyed with images of parts of baby clothes, implying the relationship between the full moon and childbirth.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1058461~S4

Press

London:Gefn Press

Rights

©Katharine Meynell; Susan Johanknecht, London:Gefn Press

Materials / Techniques

letterpress; silk screen; collograph prints; paper; thread; cloth

Measurements

27 x 28 cm