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Lament
Created in conjunction with a performance conceived by artist Martha McDonald, this reproduced artist’s book was inspired by Victorian handkerchiefs, on which women embroidered secret messages for their beloved, and by vintage needlework samples. The original performance took the audience on a tour of an 18th-century botanical garden in Philadelphia, exploring the extinction of plants as well as the Victorian language of flowers—a means of communicating through coded messages that allowed people to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken. The symbolic meanings of flowers in the garden were embroidered on the costume McDonald wore; she also whispered these to the audience as she brushed against them during the performance.
Wanting to make something that could live on after the performance, McDonald embroidered some of the stories told in the performance using the blue floss and white linen of the costume, and formed these into an artist’s book.
CONTEMPORARY ART
2006, 6 x 8 inches, 37 pp, 32 color images
Softcover, no ISBN
code: mcd lam F-7
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