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Clutter of Love is a Dream Carved on the Head of a Pin

2003
Assorted Dobbin Mill papers, cut, spun, printed and hand-colored;
Dobbin Mill papers, filigree cut; cut kozo papers, hand colored or spun;
Text: Archival inkjet printed
25" x 22" x 4" (open and hanging on the wall)
Unique

The text of "Clutter of Love..." is a prose list of the tokens of love a woman has accrued. The list was printed on colored leaves of 'washi' and then cut so they hang down from the book like a mane of hair. Some of these pages are also torn or spun into thread-like strands. One can only "read" (turn) the empty filigree white pages and see that "in between," that which we customarily deem of no importance. The resulting re-focus transfers our attention to the spaces between the pages and to re-thinking the very act of "reading."

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