by rachel kamata
Artist Book, Linocut on Washi-kozo Paper
h: 12 w: 29 d: 1 (cms).
The story begins in a town called Allenville, where the miracle of water in the desert is plentiful, until suddenly it isn’t. Overconsumption leads to the collapse of the aquifer beneath the town. The name of the town “Allenville” was chosen randomly, as to not make any clear associations to a particular place. However, after choosing the name, I looked it up to find that there was a town in Arizona with the same name that was coincidentally abandoned in 1981 after several water related infrastructural issues. Dream Swallower is a rework on an earlier bound book from 2022. Printing this book was particularly challenging due to differences in the linoleum. Adding expanding glue to the back of the matrix allowed me to create the cloudy effect on page 4.
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