Rachel Marks
During confinement time became difficult to comprehend- days and nights melted together just as the notion of space became restricted to our small intimate world. We all started to have more reflections about our interior selves- the body in which we live, both its relationship to nature, it’s dangerous fragility and beautiful strength. This confinement diary was a way for the artist to redefine and count time: she carefully picked each rose thorn to create the prickly cover of this organic book. The pages, made from delicate rose petals, all the same color and form, tell a deeper intimate story about the confusion of time, and the interior journey within the environment in which we all live but are so estranged from: the body. The book was started during the first confinement and was finished this month, to mark the end of this imprisoned moment.
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"The organic books created during the confinement tell the intimate story of the artist Rachel Marks' confinement to her studio. A reflection on the plant world began: plants and trees are by definition static, that is, they cannot move or be moved in space. During the suspended time of confinement, the artist experienced a physical sensation similar to the rooting of a tree. Her body became a plant, frozen in the ground. Through the pages of her organic books, Rachel Marks deploys a writing style that is written in the language of nature, particularly that of the forest, which retains the sensuality of a mysterious, subterranean cellular life."
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