MARIAN CRAWFORD, Truth Seeker, 2022, relief prints (from found object and letterpress)
Artist book dimensions: 12 cm x 30 cm
Composed from a thesaurus search initiated by the key word rumination, the texts in this artist book note sentiments experienced during conditions of global pandemic: thoughtfulness, speculation, brooding, obsession, worry, truth seeking, disquiet. Images printed from a single matrix accompany the text. Covering a whole page, the images begin with a single layer of ink in a more-or-less regular pattern. With repetition, and mis-registered and multi-coloured overlays, the images head towards a multi-layered dissonance.
In the world beyond this book, these feeling occasionally spill over into other activities: anxiety, rebellion, truth-questioning.
// Australia //
Photo: Tim Gresham