Geography of Lost
by Sheffield, Ellen
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About This Item
Gambier, OH: Unit IV Arts, 2021. Sheffield, Ellen. 16mo. (10)pp. One of eighteen copies, signed by the artist. Sheffield's visual and poetic meditation on "lostness" stems from an article on Lost Person Behavior, the science of applying profiles to know how and where to search for someone, to address the pervasive and, at times, either abstract or tangible feelings of abandonment and hopelessness when faced with family histories of mental illness, suicide, substance abuse, and other mostly invisible manifestations of despair. By bridging scientific, physical lostness and psychological, emotional lostness, Sheffield voices the loneliness often inherent and underappreciated in individuality, especially when that individual considers the expansive and perhaps intimidating sweep of generational trauma. Sheffield gives that sweep visual grounding by spreading her poem's lines across interleaved pages, denying organization where the reader might crave it. She also sets them amid aerial images of snowbound landscapes overlaid with askew grids. The reader must then experience lostness to access the text at all, and once they have reached the final page, are given no direction as to how to remove themselves or return the book to its original state. Sheffield's innovative use of the interleaved triptych format thus mimics the arc of her poem, producing in microcosm affective responses of despair and confusion and bringing astonishing artistic care and attention to mental illness and inherited pain. Printed letterpress on Unryu white pages, with covers of Shirakabe and endsheets of Strathmore tracing paper. Held in four-fold chemise. Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31414
- Title
- Geography of Lost
- Author
- Sheffield, Ellen
- Illustrator
- Sheffield, Ellen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Unit IV Arts
- Place of Publication
- Gambier, OH
- Date Published
- 2021
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book Arts; Illustrated Books; Fine Printing;
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