GRACIA + LOUISE

Gracia Haby - Collage on postcard and printed material, 2006-07.
(*) Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison - Collaborative drawings. Watercolour, pencil and collage on Fabriano traditional white 640gsm paper, 2007.

1 Tell me all your secrets.
2 It was fast turning into a competition.
3 The lock was broken but the door still worked.
4 For Ethel.
5 He travelled for some time without incident.
6 Left or right, they all led to the one place.
7 It was not the objects that bewitched him, it was the order in which they were arranged.
8 Not my usual locale.
9 It would take more than that for me to part with my spoils.
10 It produced what no other refractory in Beirut could.
11 Putting tails to good use.
12 A white songster conspicuous against the sky.
13 Where I can be myself.
14 He’d taken a wrong turn somewhere along the line.
15 Are we there yet?
16 It made a pleasant change from the crow normally perched there.
17 We knew a great deal about housing. (*)
18 Misfortune could not part them. (*)
19 This ain’t as easy as it seems.
20 He spoke through his nose.
21 Stumbling in the dark until you switched on the light, my friend. (*)
22 I still don’t trust them.
23 She pays me no attention, none whatsoever.
24 All under control. (*)
25 They are discussing environmental policies.
26 This will do nicely.
27 A fork in the road - a kingfisher considers his prospects as a shepherd.
28 It was easy, if you didn’t look down.
29 They gave me no chance to reply.
30 Mount Iwakiyama was hard to say but the American badger knew he’d adjust.
31 We just can’t understand why the land here is going so cheap?
32 All I need can be found in Tunis.
33 Are you the one for me?
34 All was not as it ought.
35 Enough to make a cloak and a hood, and a pair of warm mittens.
36 A Wallich’s stag with a yellow feathered Black-naped Oriole to clean his antlers.
37 A feast fit for a swamp otter and friend.
38 We’ll be quite safe up here if we just keep still.
39 A fruitful morning for one.
40 Coins in every fountain.
41 The things we left behind.
42 Back to back they swam.
43 Just passing through.
44 All the thieves, they all tended to hide their jewels in the one spot.
45 Do you think anyone will notice?
46 Several small and talkative lodgers in need of a home.
47 No one seemed to mind so I proceeded to help myself.
48 You turn left, I turn left.
49 From here we can see the Adriatic Sea.
50 Hoping no one would find my sanctuary.
51 Who knew he was actually a muskrat?
52 Please, take me with you... I don’t come empty handed.
53 Happy in my new home.
54 All was no longer in fog.
55 My dacha is 13 storeys higher than yours. (*)
56 This isn’t going to work, is it?
57 It’s getting dark and still I have no shelter.
58 I had lain a present at your feet.
59 We needed nothing else.
60 How did we end up here?
61 A fine balancing act went unnoticed at the New York Zoological Gardens.
62 A chance meeting at the Café et Vins.
63 The Bank vole conquered her fear of heights in Roma.
64 The Pigeon River Hotel seemed so very far away.
65 The moon above, and all was well.
66 I can’t see what you are looking for.
67 The yellow mud turtle arrived on the Wednesday.
68 They were unsure of their new neighbours.
69 If you’ll now sow the fields you’ll make me very happy.
70 Everything that reminds me of you makes me unbelievably sad.
71 Glued to the one spot.
72 Room for you and room for me. (*)
73 They make their houses in the rocks.
74 An unlikely pairing.
75 Please, help me untie my eyelashes.
76 I never knew I’d miss you.
77 It had to be said, it reminded them of home.
78 So happy to have found you.
79 Jumping not just puddles but whole rivers too.
80 Yours or mine? Neither could decide.
81 They formed a circle and I knew not what to do.
82 Don’t mind me, just passing through.
83 Always the Tiger-cat faces its foe.
84 From here I can see all I need.
85 Not from around these parts.
86 If only the Northern Hopping Mouse thought to look behind him.
87 Not nearly as terrifying upon closer inspection.
88 No flop-eared mule, but a bear and cub.
89 There are too many of you to accommodate.
90 I return with important trinkets, one for each of you.
91 The longer I stood there, the less I understood.
92 Conversations with a numbat.
93 A charm in your hand for a coin in the pocket.
94 We can’t understand why the land is going so cheap here either.
95 The Emperor stands about three feet in height.
96 I can’t see what you see.
97 We once watched the grassy plains, now we watch nothing.
98 A blue faced female Black-naped Monarch whispers the secrets of the world to me but I am unimpressed.
99 She was unsure of her new owl companion.
100 A new den better than the last.
101 Treasure before me.
102 It’s too cold in China.
103 Mirroring the other.
104 All the fishermen in Riga had missed what I had found.
105 At the Zoologischer Garten Köln the polar bears are oh so tiny.
106 It made for a different vantage point.
107 A small discovery, Guanajuato, Mexico.
108 A leopard seal was not normally encountered on such walks but then nothing felt normal about today.
109 This is not the home of the lace maker.
110 Portuguese pinch.
111 Stumbling in your absence.
112 Milano two step.
113 Which way to the daily ferry?

52 thaumatropes
Louise Jennison
Double sided circular drawings. Watercolour and pencil on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper, 2007.

If all the stars go out, I’ll follow my nose home.
Gracia Haby
Artists’ book. Four colour lithographic offset print on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper. Bound by Louise Jennison in cotton paper with ink stamp. Printed by Redwood Prints. Edition of 10, 2007.

All the discarded things, mended.
Gracia Haby
Artists’ book. Four colour lithographic offset print on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper. Bound by Louise Jennison in cotton paper with ink stamp. Printed by Redwood Prints. Edition of 10, 2007.

I’ve been here before, I
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Watercolour, pencil and collage on Fabriano traditional white 604gsm paper, 2007.

I’ve been here before, II
Louise Jennison
Watercolour and pencil on Fabriano traditional white 604gsm paper, 2007.

Rouen: Just passing through
Gracia Haby
Artists’ book. A book of single colour, postcard images, Rouen, originally published in Paris as part of the series, France - Pittoresque & Monumentale, has been reworked with elements of collage, pastel and pencil, 2007.

Find your place
Gracia Haby
Artists’ book. Colour lithographic offset print on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper. 22 page, concertina, bound by Louise Jennison. Printed by Redwood Prints. Edition of 10, 2007.

Don’t get around much anymore
Louise Jennison
Colour lithographic offset print hand coloured with pencil on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper. 15 cards with small envelope. Printed by Redwood Prints. Edition of 10, 2007.

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{Images from top to bottom, left to right, A trapdoor in every room.}