Jo Cook
Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada

Dragons of the Air

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www.perroverlag.com

Artist Statement

I am a visual artist who uses a number of different heteronyms when I exhibit my work. The Portuguese poet, Ferdinand Pessoa, coined the term heteronym and used it to describe the personalities who composed his poems rather than pseudonym. Pessoa felt each different name had a distinct voice and method of working.

Dragons of the Air:The Roswell Notebook of Frances Zorn was written by my heteronym, Frances Zorn, and was edited by Åg Zorn with an introduction by Florentine Perro, two other heteronyms of mine. The story told in Dragons of the Air  is a fictional account of alien abduction in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 that was kept secret until Frances Zorn’s journals were discovered in 2007.

Artist Biography

Jo Cook curated (self)Publish or Perish, an exhibition of artists’ books for Open Space Gallery in Victoria, BC in 2004; Cyclops Dreams: artists’ books, comix & zines for Access Artist Run Centre in Vancouver, BC in 2005; and Tales from the Cyclops Library for Third Space Gallery in Saint John, New Brunswick in 2007. 

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