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Publication Date
1-1-2015
Keywords
artists' books, Student Artists Book Contest, second
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Undergraduate student
Year of Graduation
2018
Major
Painting
Faculty / Course
James Stanley, Drawing I
Materials + Techniques
Pen Pencil & Ink on Tracing Paper
Student Narrative
I have read a lot in my life, but I have oftentimes wondered what one "gets" from a text. What becomes significant? What does one remember? What does one, without realizing it, put into the art one makes? Thinking of these questions, the "shape" of a text, accessibility to knowledge and notations as drawings, I began to "translate" (copy out) the notations I had made in various books, of which "The Marble Faun" is just one. After extracting the notations I bound them in the same way my books were bound and made them into my own. Rather than attempting to specifically answer the questions that I set out, these books hope to ask them again.
Recommended Citation
Rios-Fetchko, Ivan; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "The Marble Faun" (2015). 2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016. 47.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest2nd2016/47