True Means. - 2017

Chicago, Illinois:: Ann Tyler,, 2017.. Edition of 10. 8.25 x 8"; 44 pages including covers. Double-sided accordion fold. Papers: 50# cover, Premium Matte, Bright White; 20# Mohawk Brite Hue. Ink jet and laser jet printing. Laid in 8.375 x 8.125" paper case of Murillo paper by Fabriano 360 gsm. Signed by the artist. Ann Tyler: "Using language and image to examine a world of war and shifting borders, the book is an accordion fold structure with language as landscape on one side and images of bombed homes on the other. The binding strips show at the joinings on the language side as thin strips of red - referencing flashes of explosion. The voice loops back on itself moving among rationalization, definition, question, pain, anger, question. "The rubble images are from the newspaper and I've retained the halftone to create a coarse image and then pulled the image back by using the overlay of blue. Periodically I've introduced color into the rubble image to refer back to the moment of the bombings. The colors are also drawn from the language side of the book - making a physical connection between the world described and the actual world. "The binding strips list every country in the current globe and after each country are the names of that area of land going back in time. These lists also have a mirror image running backwards through the book. I did this to point to a non-stop looping around the globe. There are also sections of land and ocean among the binding strips - these curve outward on each end and become more straight toward the center - another reference to the globe. "The paper case clasp also references the globe and repeats the red of the binding strips.