Albuquerque, NM
Marriage
$400
marilynstablein@msn.com
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“Marriage” is an altered sculptural book with nails pounded through the book cover. Secretly many who have been married and consequently divorced have negative experiences of marriage. Instead of a “happily ever-after” scenario, the book presents an object pierced by nails. The title “Marriage” also plays off the original title of the book, Reveries of a Bachelor, in that to a bachelor, who has eschewed or shunned marriage, marriage may well conjure up a tortuous condition not unlike that of having nails pounded into the body.
Artist Biography
Marilyn Stablein exhibits her award winning collage journals, assemblages and artist books internationally. At twenty she apprenticed with Tibetan master calligraphers in the Himalayas where she lived for seven years. A small catalog, Microcosm, was published in 2007. Her books include: The Census Taker; Sleeping in Caves, and Night Travels to Tibet.
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