Plagiarism

Plagiarism

Unique artists book, Coptic binding, various artists, mixed media.  Journal submissions, dissertation copies and other assorted documents were pulped in 2011 and remade into pages which were sent to artists all over the world.  They were returned during the course of 2011 and 2012, but the book was finally bound in October 2014.  The intention was to discover how various artists interpreted the title.  

Contributing artists were:

 “E” - France

Rob Grant - Australia

Rosa Gravino - Argentina

Judith Heartsong - USA

Lisa Iverson - USA

Diane Keys - USA

Susanna Lakner - Germany

Lesley Magwood Fraser - South Africa

Katerina Nitoltsou - Greece

Bifidus Jones - USA

Cheryl Penn - South Africa

Svetlana Pesetskaya - Russia

Nancy Bell Scott - USA

Judy Skolnik - USA

Jen Staggs - USA

Guido Vermeulen - Belgium

Nadine Wendell Mojica - USA

Marie Wintzer - Japan

(Collection Cheryl Penn)

RCBz

Unique artists book holding digital prints, envelopes and correspondence from RCBz.  

RCBz and I have maintained a long an interesting Mail Art exchange.  His generosity in sharing his digital prints is not generally appreciated as I don’t think many artists have as wide and varied a collection as I.  

We have often written about some sort of binding mechanism to keep these prints together as I am very loathe to perforate them.  I think many people are also not aware that he only makes one print of his digital collages.  

Each print is tailor made for its recipient.   This involves copious time and effort. 

The (current) answer is to collate the prints in a folder which opens out into an accordion book.  Two sets of prints - Rorschack Mitty looked the White Elephant straight in the Mouth and the amazing Fin Series - see http://cherylpenn.com/wpb/?p=4147

will be wire bound as both these editions were intended for a book-type end, including  - TICTAC’s Zine in a Box project.  

For the Mona Lisa Series see link below - those fabulous postcards and their history were included in An Encyclopedia of Everything.

http://cherylpenn.com/wpb/?p=3680

Within the folder I have included various emails and correspondence between RCBz and myself.  They stand as some sort of historical account of his work as he seems to be in the habit of deleting - blogs in particular.

Symons, Catherine (South Africa) Untitled

Untitled

While doing research at DUT on the history of books and papermaking, Tony Starkey and I reopened the paper making study which had been in mothballs since The Great Move.  Making paper was a wondrous experience -  I was then in control of the whole book making process. I inherited a student at this time who was also working with paper processes.  I think she is now a window dresser for some famous shop in London, but I bought this small book at  her final exhibition.  Its an old photograph album filled with unusual ephemera instead of photographs. It speaks of miserable memories, and incidents best forgotten, but now embedded in handmade paper. We are all mind and handmade people - good imprints are all that should be left behind, but these impressions are not.

Handspun. Liz Vels (South Africa)

Handspun

Umsinsi Press, Artists Book,  210mm x 297mm, dated 31 December 1998, Malvern, 46 pages & art illustrations.  BUT I have a hand made, signed copy with covers, binding, notes and colours by Liz Vels.  Dedication - For Cheryl who makes books with love and thanks, Liz.

I met Liz while doing research on South African artists books.  She welcomed me to her home and I saw so many treasures that day I cannot begin to describe.  She was absolutely free with her knowledge and generous with her gift.  A poem from the book:

 GENESIS

Did you speak with your hands

flatten deserts in the wind

wave mountains

voice birds in the sling of Your arm

whisper trees through bent fingers?

Was Adam mouthed in locked embrace

to keep us face to face?

SUNDERMANN, Erich (Austria) The Bhubezi Mythology

The Bhubezi Mythology

Loose original drawings, copies numbered 1, 3 and 4, undated but done in 2015.  Erich has been a long-time Mail Art contact who has consistently sent wonderful drawings and Mail art Makes the World A Town contributions.  He has also contributed to the Bhubezi mythology (see http://bhubezi.blogspot.com) on a few occasions but none as splendid as this.  I understand the time and effort this has taken.  

Erich has textually and visually re-documented The Women Who Hold Up the World.  In a way he has managed to pull all the strings of this unwieldy mythology into a volume which has allowed me to make sense of my own ramblings.  Its just - where to now? I don’t seem to have much control with Magenta and Sienna caught Between.  At least, some keys are surfacing.  Erich’s drawings will go a long way to compiling the replacement volume of The Chronicles of Lyrehc.  The original artifact has been stolen by instruments of  the Moorish Dervish (there lacks agreement between scholars on this word).