Work Book

WORK BOOK was published as a supplement to "Words from Obituaries," made in Chicago starting in 2011."Words from Obituaries" is an ongoing project; WORK BOOK documents a process and brings together a selection of pieces, in-progress or completed, as of May 2014.The publication also includes images of " And Death Does Not Destroy" as it was being constructed in the studio."And Death Does Not Destroy" is a textile transcription of a passage from Rolfe Humphries' translation of Lucretius'...
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WORK BOOK was published as a supplement to "Words from Obituaries," made in Chicago starting in 2011."Words from Obituaries" is an ongoing project; WORK BOOK documents a process and brings together a selection of pieces, in-progress or completed, as of May 2014.The publication also includes images of " And Death Does Not Destroy" as it was being constructed in the studio."And Death Does Not Destroy" is a textile transcription of a passage from Rolfe Humphries' translation of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things: "The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Caro," translated by Rolfe Humphries, 1968. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Pp 80 - 81.An exhibition of "Words from Obituaries" was presented from June 13 to July 17, 2014 at the Alpineum Produzenten Galerie in Lucerne, Switzerland. A limited number of signed copies of WORK BOOK was funded and distributed by the Alpineum. See http://alpineum.com/dianna-frid-words-from-obituaries/This publication is partly supported by a professional development grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.