MENDING BEFORE ENDING

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Mending before Ending

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Mending before Ending, concertina artist book with etchings printed onto Velin Cuve BFK Rives 300gsm paper, hand-stitching, with cream silk slipcase.

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Mending before Ending, concertina book, detail.

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Mending before Ending, concertina book, detail.

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Mending before Ending, prints, Darning and Stitching.

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Mending before Ending, prints, Patching and Mending.

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Mending before Ending, prints, Darning, Stitching, Patching and Mending.

Dianne Longley - Title of Book: Mending before Ending
Medium: 4 prints, concertina artist book with etchings printed onto Velin Cuve BFK Rives 300gsm paper, hand-stitching, with cream silk slipcase
Size: silk folio 32 x 19.5 x 5cm, prints 29.5 x 16.5cm
Edition of 8 : signed and numbered, 1984
Brief Description: Mending before Ending is a meditation on the fraglity of being. the silk cover alludes to the delicacy of its contents. Containing no text, the stitched hand-printed etchings reflect on the idea of change and on the desire to sustain the past by repairing rather than simply giving way to the new.