9″ x 12″ (the drawing part)
This is one of eleven drawings that will accompany Laynie Browne’s elegant and strong new book. I’ll trickle some of these in here on the WaD, with occasional bits of her text. I am making the drawings as replicas of the illustrations from my mother’s Edwardian child’s primer “Emmy Lou: Her Book & Heart”. Basically illustrating Laynie’s text with another book’s illustrations, and they strangely work. Or, they work strangely. Either, both. Whatever.
One cryptic description of the collaboration, from the Valentine’s exhibition at the UA Poetry Ctr:
What happens when a Victorian childhood primer meets postmodern characters based upon the periodic table of elements? Love compels tears. Relationships are based upon chemistry and are represented through a series of drawings which emphasize gesture, hearsay, and indeterminacy.