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Publication Date
1-1-2015
Keywords
artists'books, Student Artists' Book Contest, first
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Graduate student
Year of Graduation
2016
Major
Photography
Faculty / Course
Lisa Young, Image Bank
Materials + Techniques
Dirt from my backyard, discarded 4 x 5 prints.
Student Narrative
The book, "Please," is a second experiment in an ongoing series in which the artist asks the viewer to take part in a performed interaction. Inside, underneath dirt lies the imperative "take one and bury it in your backyard" on the outside of a box filled with the artist's ignored 4 by 5 exposures. These contact prints, packaged in foggy sleeves, evoke questions of failure -whether aesthetic, technical, circumstantial, or personal - photographic longing, and personal grief. However, the careful treatment of each photograph celebrates the discarded and draws attention to the inability to let comfortably let go. This chore I pass on to the viewer and leave open-will the burial take place? Is it a funeral for a missed opportunity? Or a poetic trace to be planted?
Recommended Citation
Raasch, Thalassa; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "Please," (2015). 1st Student Artists' Book Contest 2015. 33.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest1st2015/33