Rime.

Item Details

[Canmore, Alberta:, Dea Fischer, 2015, Sheer parchment covers, in a leporello binding.

First and only edition., Fine

5 1/8  x 7 3/4."  Unpaginated. Sheer parchment. Drawings of branches in white, translucent, and red oil paint.

Leporello binding, with double-sided accordion-style pages. Signed and dated by the artist on the rear cover. A fine copy.

Unique artist's book: the only copy. The pages evoke a winter tree-line with a density of frost-rimed branches. The paper itself replicates the effect of an ice halo, and a single dot of red strikes the reader as a lone winterberry in deepest midwinter.

Dea Fischer is a Canadian book artist and educator who now resides in Norwich, England. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the US, the UK, and South Korea, and is presently held at the Banff Center, Yale, the University of Utah, the University of Washington, and the University of Toronto. She was formerly a library conservator, and worked for many years in the Canadian public library system.