COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Inheritance
Creator:
Banks, Alisa C. (Alisa Christophe)
Description:
The walnut portable desk box contains a "blotting paper" (quilted, embroidered square of cloth), an "ink well" (jar with custom blended aromatic hair pomade), an "inkpen" (with a tuft of hair for the nib), and a volume (unpaged ; 9 x 14 cm), drum-leaf bound and covered with crocheted synthetic hair, with lines of poetic text mounted on the handmade paper and illustrated with ink brush work. The ink is "ancestor ink," sourced from site-specific ingredients with ancestral associations. Edition limited to 8 numbered (and 2 AP) copies signed by the artist. Artist's statement laid in: "Inheritance is a celebration and fusion of the tenacity of a culture to document history using non-literary methods. Inheritance speaks to "hair day," a custom prevalent in many Black households in the US and throughout Africa and the diaspora, from ancient days to present, where the act of hair grooming is also an opportunity to share history, stories, and traditions."
Subject:
African Americans in art
Subject:
African diaspora
Subject:
Artists, Black
Subject:
Genealogy
Subject:
Hair
Subject:
Hair -- Care and hygiene
Subject:
Oral tradition
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Ritual
Subject:
Women artists
Date:
2022
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 artist book (1 volume and 3 objects in box) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 x 10 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Boxes (containers)
Format/Medium:
Crochet (needlework)
Format/Medium:
Drum leaf bindings
Format/Medium:
Hair (animal components)
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Ink
Format/Medium:
Scented books
Format/Medium:
Wood
Source:
Inheritance, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b1949273x
Identifier:
i13950666
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
