PASSAGE ILLUMINATED

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Passage Illuminated

Apperception, a symbolic narrative 1991

Aberrant Observance

Quest

Mending before Ending

Deanin's Dreams

The Glass Ball

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A Passage Illuminated, artist book, cover of Japanese paper, Japanese Hodomura paper pages, with imtaglio images and relief-printed text pages.

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A Passage Illuminated, pages 2 and 3, relief-printed text (Descent by chance with trickster near...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

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A Passage Illuminated, pages 4 and 5, relief-printed text (The trickster beckons that she commence...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

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A Passage Illuminated, pages 6 and 7, relief-printed text (Down dark chambers she ventures bold...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

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A Passage Illuminated, pages 8 and 9, relief-printed text (She moves toward the doorway closed...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

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A Passage Illuminated, pages 10 and 11, relief-printed text (A peculiar discourse soon takes place...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

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A Passage Illuminated , pages 12 and 13, relief-printed text (A choir in the distance sing...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

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A Passage Illuminated , pages 16 and 17, relief-printed text (The question of her erstwhile fall...)
and image printed from intaglio plate.

Dianne Longley - Title of Book: A Passage Illuminated
Medium: 18 pages, artist book with 8 etchings printed in dark blue, and 10 relief-printed text pages printed in dark purple, onto Japanese Hodomura paper, Japanese book binding, with blue Japanese paper book covers and gold screenprinted lettering. Endpapers screenprinted with studio logo pattern and dusted iwth gold mica powder.
Size: book 20.5 x 26 x 5cm
Edition of 40 : signed and numbered, 1992
Brief Description: A Passage Illuminated unfolds in rhyming couplets, the parable of an un named girl who falls into the underworld of existence. The accompanying images suggest an existential computer game where self-actualistion is the end prize. The central character moves through the various scenes encountering totmeic animals, along with archetypes such as the Trickster and the Samlet, (two symbolic figures that appear in many of books and prints).