TWENTY-ONE INDIVIDUAL COLLAGED BOOKS
Gracia Haby
Twenty-one collaged books exhibited as part of A
key to help make your own world visible. Each unique
book features collage elements and pencil, and all were made in 2009.
Throughout the exhibition, the pages were turned at regular interval
to reveal new scenes and suitable inhabitants.
1. Eager
for the old joys once more (Musée Grévin)
2. Before all colour faded (Ricordo di Genova)
3. They ate their meals on the grass and danced on the lawns
(Versailles & les Trianons)
4. Many
tiny potentialities (Københaven)
5. Blinking
in the light (Grand Saint Bernard et son hospice)
6.
A view gleaned through looking-glass (London)
7. Primary transport for the dispelling of fallacious beliefs
(Museum of Applied Science of Victoria)
8. Looking only for you (Der Rhein)
9. Passing through, undetected for the time being (A Souvenir
of Bangor)
10. Meet me at the Opéra Theatre and hand in hand we’ll
go through the streets of Paris (Paris Vues Artistiques)
11. Exhausting
all possible avenues (Abbay d’ Aulne, Bruxelles)
12. More than I was lead to believe (Amsterdam)
13. Avant et après (Dixmude, Noordstraat Dixmude, Before
and after the war of 1914–1918), with Louise Jennison
14. I chanced upon the unexpected and found I liked it (Foregate
Library, Worcester)
15. Spending the night (Hotel Stenton, Philadelphia)
16. All there, all accounted for; I can vouch for with own eyes
(Souvenir of Egypt)
17. Seen and later forgotten (Souvenir of Niagra Falls, Canada)
18. Forming new acquaintances at
the birthplace of Honoré de Balzac (Tours, France)
19. Through purgatory passed, and then there was Bombay (Photogravure
views of Bombay)
20. I am not trying to trick you; not purposefully (Souvenir
of Versailles et des Trianons)
21. In search of a time the heart does not recall (Souvenir
of Johannesburg)
These things take shape slowly,
Sailing
away in pea green and beautiful boat.
The
day passed without mishap.
Smolder.
Looking
into a miror.
Up
she goes, down she goes.
Gracia
Haby
Looking
only for you (detail)
2009
collaged book
The exhibition installed (a small detail twice glimpsed)
