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La Route
Lise Poirier
1992
kinetic, mixed-media
number 1
edition of 1
My books are far from traditional. Many have no text at all, yet relate stories of emotional states evoking the past through metaphor. // I theatrically place worn out objects in my books, creating dramas of old stories, nomadic tribes, fragments of culture. My affinity for these decaying vessels and their crumpled paper content bears witness to the struggles of people in a world in which they are afraid and unsure. // These metaphors are intuitively realized. [. . .] "La Route" is a 20 foot collaged monotype on handmade paper. The prints mimic the road as we read sign after sign: "expect delays, bump ahead, how am I driving?" As we are busy pursuing our lives we often encounter the same obstacles, the same signs.
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