Completing the circle
by Philomena Robinson
Completing the Circle is a multi-layered book which weaves original and found stories, poems, photographs, brush painted ancient symbols, paper-cut and coper embossed designs into a self-portrait of the artist. The twenty-four pages are sewn into an accordion spine in eight, three-page sections that open into a circle.
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Hand-sewn book assembled accordion style.
Cover title.
Publication information from colophon.
Text includes original prose and free verse as well as quotations from Alta, Brian Andreas, Lewis Carrol, Jeanne Foster, Marge Piercy, Rainer Maria Rilke, and W.B. Yeats.
Title and some illustrations in copper leaf; book is sewn with copper thread.
"Hand made paper of cotton and abaca was created by Marilyn Sward, Pincroft Studio. Photographs, hand painted water color symbols, embossed copper and paper-cut designs by Philomena Robinson"--Colophon.
"This edition of 125 copies was created for and supported by the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. ... supported in part by the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Fund"--Colophon.
LC has copies numbered 67 and 68, each signed by the author; neither copy in portfolio. Both copies acquired through copyright, May 30, 1997.
LC copies 1 & 2 re-housed in envelopes (38 cm.).
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