The seventeenth century writings of Thomas Traherne lay largely unknown until they were re-discovered early in the twentieth century. The writing is celebrated today for its rapture and delight in nature and its luminous, visionary quality but he also wrote of darkness and struggle.
Angela Lemaire has chosen passages which speak of the search for the pure vision of infancy -- that vision which encompasses all things, the depths and the heights. She has responded with images engraved in wood which display the interconnections between everything within the universe. The eternity within us responds to the eternity of nature, life and others.
Text and images are all held within borders which reiterate this joy in all that surrounds us.
There is a small hand coloured edition which is filled with light and sunshine intensifying the artistís vision.
Unbound Sheet Editions & Inscriptions
Copies of the Main Edition are Signed by the artist
The paper is from a Zerkall special making. Type is Truesdell. Images are 9 wood engravings (printed in dark blue), 5 woodcuts (in burnt sienna), linocut borders (in sage). All are printed from the original blocks.
Joys
Published in 2004
48 pp.
254 x 220 mm
Editions & Availability
200 copies were printed of the Main Edition Unbound copies are available to buy at £85 each.
ISBN: 978-0-907664-66-6
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