BLURRED AND DISTINCT
Somewhere in the distance, a cat purrs. And in accord, they turn over.
Gracia Haby
Blurred and Distinct
2014
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
Housed in a linen Solander box with inlaid collage, In the borrowed costume of Petrouchka (c 1911), (bound by Louise Jennison)
A suite of seventeen collages made especially for and exhibited as part of In Your Dreams (Counihan Gallery, 2014), and accompanying dream text, assembled in a handmade Solander box guarded by Petrouchka. This artists’ book is now in the collection of State Library Victoria.
It includes the collages,
Beautifully staged (Shukumei c 1975–76)
The Bluebird pas de deux re-imagined
In the strange and enchanted half-hour before the rising of the curtain
ONEtwothree ONEtwothree ONEtwothree
Ondine silhouette (Margot Fonteyn)
Leaving it to others
Les Rendezvous reversed (Alicia Markova and Stanislas Idzikowsky)
Back up, fall down
Fall down, thud
Magnetic headdress of the Buffoon’s Wife (Chout, 1921)
Ground covered (The Prospect Before Us, 1940)
A groove on a gramophone record
Slowly across the clouds
Gemini alert (H00oroscope, 1937–38)
Miss Fairbrother as Aladdin calls time (The Romantic Period)
Kitri camouflage
Seen, unseen
In addition, this artists’ book was made into a pocket-sized zine of same name.
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RELATED POSTS,
PETROUCHKA, A NUTCRACKER, AND A MERMAID
AND JUST LIKE THAT, PETROUCHKA IS INLAID INTO THE HANDBOUND SOLANDER BOX (15 SECOND HYPERLAPSE)
BLURRED AND DISTINCT, ALL SIGNED, ALL DONE (ONE SOLANDER BOX OF COLLAGES)
A FLOURLESS ORANGE DELIGHT TO CELEBRATE THE SALE OF OUR ARTISTS' BOOK, BLURRED AND DISTINCT, TO THE SLV
I SLIPPED INTO REVERIE
IN YOUR DREAMS, BLURRED AND DISTINCT
IN YOUR DREAMS, WITH A MUFFLED VOICE
