Description

INTERSECTIONS conjunctions is a thirty-eight page artist book of poems, writings and images by the artist including quotations from various authors regarding space. The book is ink-jet printed on Japanese paper with an accordion binding. There is an English and a French version (INTERSECTIONS conjonctions)

The book opens with the following:

“Time and space are real beings. Time is a man, space is a woman”. Wm. Blake

Montreal November 1996

Two years ago following a major personal crisis, I chose to leave a relationship and a home of some 15 years and venture a move alone to another city. This is a query into ideas about space and about writing that has evolved as a result of that move. A query that began probably long before I can remember, but came into focus recently with a sense of urgency and a need for empty space.

Manifesting physically as a wall in my home studio, this space slowly became the site of a struggle with words. Messages that I began to write to my mother were pinned to that wall. My mother died when I was very young. I have few memories of her. I came to recognize this empty space as a ‘Motherspace’ that I had to re-invent in order to become a mother’s daughter.