This coming March will find some of my recent artwork in a group show with the talented Flavia Lovatelli and Olga Yukhno at Anastasia & Friends Gallery on Main Street here in Columbia. The show is called Alternative Storytellers. Flavia is making artwork relating to recycling tales. Olga is addressing stories on social issues, many of which are inspired from NPR interviews. I've been creating (altogether too many) pieces that give a feminist twist to traditional fairy tales.
Together we are planning a collaborate piece, a 3D sculptural figure called The Storyteller. Olga is making a four-faced ceramic head. Flavia is making one of her fabulous Eco-Trash Couture garments. I'm supposed to be making a book covered platform on which the figure will stand and suspending books around the figure.
At first I thought of suspending open books using D-rings. The weight of the books, however, gives a downward slant to the tome. Not so nice! Plus, each book would require two wires. It would be more difficult and time consuming to get each one into an appropriate position. After the failed experiment, I remembered an old piece I once made and nearly threw away.
I took a book art class in the autumn of 2011. The instructor was a nice enough guy but not particularly knowledgeable. I had a good time, did all my homework, and created The Book of Covers as my final project. It's never been shown anywhere. That wasn't the point of making it. In fact, it didn't really function well as a "book". It was just a fun challenge, a way to appropriately participate, nothing more until this week.
I bought more rings and had this installation up in no time at all. It looks much better this way than it ever did before! I'm really pleased. With four strands of linked covers, the installation will surround the sculptural figure with the concept of books and stories. It truly is an alternative way to look at at a book! The exhibit is part of the Deckle Edge Literary Festival too! That's on March 23rd. What a perfect partnership!
The altered covers read as follows:
Cover, an entry fee
Dust Cover, a plastic machine or equipment shield
First Day Cover, a special stamp
Cover, a dramatic or operatic or dance understudy
Cover Crop, erosion prevention
Slip Cover, sofa protection
Cover, as in a blanket
Cover, a collection of mathematical subsets
Cover, a lid or seal
Cover Girl, the lady on the front of a fashion magazine
Covered Wagon, primitive transportation
Cover, a form of protection in combat
Cover alls, a work garment
Run for cover, getting out of harm's way
Cover, what one tells the boss for a co-worker
Cloud cover, overcast
Cover, singing someone else's song
Cover letter, the introductory page for a business proposal or an information packet
Covered, an insurance claim
Cover, to traverse or to travel over
Blow One's Cover, inadvertently give away one's secret identity
Cover up, a loose outer garment
Snow Cover, the white stuff
Cover, how a stallion mates a mare
Cover up, a type of cosmetic make-up
Break Cover, suddenly emerge from hiding
Take Cover, seek protection
Cover, the ability to pay for something
Under Cover, disguising one's identity to gain the trust of another
Cover up, an untrue explanation for an action or motive
Cover, a relatively common last name
Cover, as in concealment
Cover, a fielding position in cricket
Cover, a poor way to judge a book
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