Tag: artists’ book
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Jen Bervin- NETS
Jen Bervin’s project Nets is one of my favorite usages of erasure poetry. In Nets, Bervin uses Shakespeare’s sonnets as her source text, and creates erasure poems from/within them. In her process note, Bervin writes: “I stripped Shakespeare’s sonnets bare to the ‘nets’ to make the space of the poems open, porous, possible––a divergent elsewhere.…
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Shirin Salehi’s “Back From a Walk”
Born in Tehran in 1982, Shirin Salehi is a visual artist, educator, and translator. She regularly teaches classes and workshops at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Living between New York and Madrid, Salehi moves through her artistic practice in three languages: English, Spanish, and Persian. Salehi’s attention to language is evident in…