On the press
M A R Y
The prototype for this first publication from Awen Press, was shown at the Liverpool Central Library as part of a group exhibition organised by Liverpool Book Arts during October 2024.
The images are now all engraved and printed, and binding begins shortly. The edition will be limited to about 50 or so copies.
This book is a visual meditation on the archetypes of Mother Nature, of woman, of Curandera, of The Crone. Our planet is in decline, and She is captured. I wish I had some answers, but I do not - other than to acknowledge Her and to respectfully mirror and anthropomorphise Her suffering, anger, grief and mystery. As we breathe out our carbon monoxide, our ecology absorbs it and returns us life giving oxygen. This natural give and take, the amazing reciprocity and once balanced and natural state, is in ruination. After just a few decades we have broken a system that took 4.5 billion years to make, and though these images may be unsettling, I cannot ignore it.
These hand pulled prints are two colour engravings, worked up from monoprints and made on an 1856 Albion press, using lead type (a material that has been recycled for 500 years) and acid free papers.
The prototype for this first publication from Awen Press, was shown at the Liverpool Central Library as part of a group exhibition organised by Liverpool Book Arts during October 2024.
The images are now all engraved and printed, and binding begins shortly. The edition will be limited to about 50 or so copies.
This book is a visual meditation on the archetypes of Mother Nature, of woman, of Curandera, of The Crone. Our planet is in decline, and She is captured. I wish I had some answers, but I do not - other than to acknowledge Her and to respectfully mirror and anthropomorphise Her suffering, anger, grief and mystery. As we breathe out our carbon monoxide, our ecology absorbs it and returns us life giving oxygen. This natural give and take, the amazing reciprocity and once balanced and natural state, is in ruination. After just a few decades we have broken a system that took 4.5 billion years to make, and though these images may be unsettling, I cannot ignore it.
These hand pulled prints are two colour engravings, worked up from monoprints and made on an 1856 Albion press, using lead type (a material that has been recycled for 500 years) and acid free papers.
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