Handwritten and Wordless Books > The Lake
In October of 1999 poet Lyn Hejinian and artist Emilie Clark spent a week together on Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire and attempted to create a work that was both site-specific and time-specific. The resulting work, The Lake, uses the lake as both as a literal and a metaphorical landscape, explored by both word and image across a sprawl of accordion pages. The images make use of watercolor, photography, collage, and pen and ink.
In the artists’ words: “We were interested in the interrelationships, simultaneities, and the extents of layers; we were thinking about complex emotional and aesthetic terrains along with the literal one we were investigating. We imagined the lake as a site and described such a site as being constituted by all possible responses to it.” Bound by Judith Ivry in an edition of 55.