The Scarlet Letter
Old Fan Press
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A one-of-a-kind artist's book. Covers have been cut from an edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and re-sewn via stab-stitch binding onto blank, stained paper pages. A stamp on the front cover reads "discarded" and on the inside back cover read "Jones Co. High School Library, Gray, Ga." indicating that this book was discarded.
Artists' statement: "My college roommate's mom was a librarian. My roommate had a lot of discarded library books and let me take any books I wanted when we moved out of the house. I selected books with titles and authors I had heard of but never read. The Scarlet Letter was falling apart but I thought the cover was promising. Years later, I started staining paper to create landscape horizon lines. It was an intuitive process to bind stained paper between the damaged covers with a title widely known for having a character who is rejected from their community for what they see as being a permanent stain on that person's character"--Email from Frank Hamrick, sent August 14, 2015.
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A one-of-a-kind artist's book. Covers have been cut from an edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and re-sewn via stab-stitch binding onto blank, stained paper pages. A stamp on the front cover reads "discarded" and on the inside back cover read "Jones Co. High School Library, Gray, Ga." indicating that this book was discarded.
Artists' statement: "My college roommate's mom was a librarian. My roommate had a lot of discarded library books and let me take any books I wanted when we moved out of the house. I selected books with titles and authors I had heard of but never read. The Scarlet Letter was falling apart but I thought the cover was promising. Years later, I started staining paper to create landscape horizon lines. It was an intuitive process to bind stained paper between the damaged covers with a title widely known for having a character who is rejected from their community for what they see as being a permanent stain on that person's character"--Email from Frank Hamrick, sent August 14, 2015.
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