Other details
- Description:
12 unnumbered pages (accordion pleated) : color illustrations ; 19 cm
- Variant Title:
How to connect two different wor(l)ds in our nomadic life
- Published:
Tucson : [B. Wehr], 1998.
- Language:
English
Polish
- Notes:
"Book 17"--P. 4 of cover.
Binding is an accordion fold variation called a 'flutter book.'
"Bilingual artist's book by Beata Wehr investigates the dilemma of being a person from two places trying to bring those worlds together. She suggests connecting through travel: "But you need a plane ticket." Or sending letters, but "most of us do not write letters." Illustrations, as well as text, tell the story. A map of the world gives way to maps of two cities, followed by dual envelopes with return addresses in Warsaw and Tucson. Finally, she attempts to wed the two worlds via computer graphics. Fusing photographs of each locale, she places architectural columns amidst the spires of cacti near her desert home-a virtual reality that is, of course, uninhabitable. The final resolve: adapt to a nomadic life. Pages are divided in three vertical sections with central images crossing the spreads. Text is printed in English and Polish, from left to right, then backwards, as a distorted mirror to translated counterparts-perhaps a "literalization" of that peculiar travel discomfort of not knowing whether you are coming or going." -- Vamp and Tramp website, accessed 4/24/2012
English and Polish text on opposite pages.
- OCLC Number:
41044610
