The exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition is available from Blurb. Copy and paste this link: https://www.blurb.ca/b/11120362-textus-texts-textiles-fabric-bookworks-by-lise-me
See ESSAYS page for the curatorial essay from the catalogue (but without the images.).
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Diane Dawber's poem, Aunt, refers to a specific car, which gave me the opportunity to make 1970 Buick Electras out of industrial felt! (This series of bookworks exploring textile techniques has given me the chance to try things I have never done in fabric.) Embroidered haloes, tiny quilts and crocheted tablecloths illustrate the poem about a woman who "could do anything with her hands." Photo credit: Chris Miner.
2023, Kingston, ON. 4 pages plus 2-page colophon, split. (5 x 7 x 15 ″) Edition of 6. $900
This fabric book must be unbuttoned to read the text of Lorna Crozier's wonderful poem of the same name. The books were screen-printed in an eccentric edition of 10, as the fabric came from my stash: I am still trying to REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE. The buttons used came from the collections of Norma Homer (a good friend), Pauline Melhorn (my mother) and Reta Boe (my grandmother-in-law.) Photo credit: Chris Miner.
2018, Kingston, ON. 5 pages, split. (14 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/2″) Eccentric edition of 10. $700
Each copy of this book is colour-coordinated with its cover, which is a pair of seersucker or Madras plaid shorts. This copy has a mint green and white seersucker pair as cover. Some pages have extra additions—pant loops, pockets or pocket trim. The books were screen-printed.
2020, Kingston, ON. 9 pages including 3 text pages. (14 x 12 x 1″) Eccentric edition of 10 plus one AP. $600
Fabricated with fabric from the artist's stash, each copy is slightly different. The fact that there were only seven place mats determined the size of the edition. The text is screen-printed, using screens made on a Thermofax machine and Color Vie ink from Gunnel Hag, in Toronto. Photo credits: Chris Miner.
2021, Kingston, ON. 5 double pages. (10.75 x 8.5 x 3″) Eccentric edition of 7. $750
Elizabeth Bishop's poem "House Guest" is about a depressed seamstress, who would rather be a nun. The dressmaker's Judy (dummy) is layered with five garments—all based on clothing from the 1960s, as that was the decade in which the poem was written. The second coat is a copy of a coat which was worn by Queen Elizabeth II. Removing each of the first four garments reveals a stanza or two screen-printed inside the clothing. The final verse is printed on the front of a nun's habit. (The colophon is on the back.) Photo credits: Chris Miner.
2024, Kingston, ON. 5 pages/garments. (19 x 9 x 8″) Eccentric edition of 6. $900 NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem is in the voice of a woman, during WW1, who wishes she were doing something more active to help the soldiers, rather than sitting and sewing. The book's format is modelled on a WW1 "housewife," a soldier's sewing kit. As it unfolds, the view will find sewing tools and eventually the text. Photo credits: Chris Miner.
2019, Kingston, ON. 3 pages. 4.5 X 6.25 X 1". Eccentric edition of 10. $400 NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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