STRIKE by Shannon Ebner
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Publisher: Mousse Publishing
Year: 2015
Format: Softcover
Edition: First
Condition: New
Symbols abound in Shannon Ebner’s work. She uses them as if they were words in a poem, multiplying the number of potential meanings and interpretations. Like musical scores, her alphabets make intervals and suspensions literal and thus visible. They capitalize what is usually repressed in written language (or simply taken for granted), in order to reinstate another structure of understanding. Language is an expression of order and Ebner makes this very clear by giving each letter the weight of concrete. STRIKE slows down the pace of reading to its zero degree. One letter, one page. One letter, one page. A slash. An exercise in reading akin to our first decodings of the written word, when we started, as children, learning how to do things “by the book.”
With texts by Barbara Casavecchia and Alessandro Giammei.
