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Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2008. Heebner, Mary. Small oblong folio. 42 + 13ff., + 20 plates. One of twenty copies. With twenty pigment prints in triptych format by Mary Heebner. According to the artist, these prints began as collage paintings, created as an emotional response to the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet. Each triptych incorporates an image of the female form to the left, followed by images of covered text that has been partly scraped back to reveal linguistic fragments. The process of revealing and concealing dovetails with the nature of the play itself, in which, as Heebner notes, "fragments of vital information are lost, manipulated, or misinterpreted." The phenomenon is most potent, and disastrous, for Gertrude and Ophelia, who time and again are trampled by their male counterparts, who themselves contend for power at any cost. The railroading of women and manipulation for the sake of political caché remains a frustration for the contemporary reader as… Read More