Bridget Elmer • Tallahassee, FL
Flatbed Splendor

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Bridget Elmer
The Troubled Lyricist
Limited Edition Artist Book
$50

This handmade chapbook resulted from a one-month experiment. In response to Pablo Neruda’s essay, “Toward an Impure Poetry,” and a challenge by comic artist Dylan Graham, the artist chose one object each day to contemplate with both images and words. The chapbook includes a selection of the resulting poems and drawings. Throughout this practice, the artist continually returned to the following passage. "It is good at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest... From them flow the contacts of man with the earth, like a text for all troubled lyricists." (Neruda, xxi)

Handmade cotton and flax paper, Japanese kozo and waxed linen. Photopolymer plates printed from drawings by the artist. Handset type. Pamphlet stitch. Poems by the artist. Number of Copies in Edition: 35 Size: 4 x 7.75 x 0.125 inches (closed), 8 x 7.75 x 0.0625 (open) Number of Pages: 18. 2008.

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.