A fable in brief is simply an extended description of what metaphor accomplishes. It avoids saying 'this' stands for 'that' and allows meaning to remain unfixed. This fluidity is also a displacement, one thing substituted for another. Metaphor like collage is always a disturbance, an enigmatic disturbance. It's illusiveness registers more poignantly what remains absent. Fable in Brief is a slowly emerging series of drawing/tracings and etchings that will be bound into a collection of artists' books to celebrate the Year of the Print in 2016.
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(i) - (iii) Fable in Brief Graphite on tracing paper
I love this idea of the metaphor referred to as fable in brief! Beautiful works and poignant fables in brief! Thanks for sharing. -- Patti
ReplyDelete"enigmatic disturbance"... gosh, you have a great way with words to image
ReplyDeletethese images ... when i clicked on them i was astonished. layers of story or thought hinted. i love the thought of a bunch of books celebrating fable in brief. will you edition at all?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind comments...multiples Velma?...ummmh...at this stage the works are mostly drawings... and I'm really a pretty lazy printmaker these days...I fall asleep at the wheel when attempting lengthy editions... so at best a very limited etching series.
Deleteeven a small edition is something wonderful. i've finally approached editioning my books, the last at 41 was a huge endeavor, but worth it.
Deletelooks amazing glen .. will be pleased if i can get a copy
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