mtlaugwalkcuts 1-7
2013.
Installation of constructions: book covers, board & cloth, birch panels.
48 H x 60 W x 3.25 D inches
Ea.: 9.13 x 8.66 x 3.25 inches
mtlaugwalkcuts 1- 6
with outwith cuts_1
2016.
Installation of constructions: book covers, board & cloth, birch panels.
48 H x 60 W x 3.25 D inches
Ea.: 9.13 x 8.66 x 3.25 inches
An installation of seven mixed media constructions made from “cuts” of book covers. The installation was inspired by a walk that Brooke took up to the summit of Mt. Laugarvatn during an artist residency in Iceland. She recorded the shape of the walk with a GPS device and printed it out into 23 sections. She selected seven “cuts” from the shape to influence the forms. She was also interested in how to ‘round’ a rectangular structure. The work is informed by the changing role of the book as the world moves from constructed forms that held and protected printed images and text to primarily digital delivery systems. Discarded book remnants are the dominant
material of this work.
*In Iceland, place names often reflect something of the landscape and sometimes a story that occurred there. Like Icelanders, I named this series to reference my process of working and the place that inspired it.
