Description
Lives and works in California
About this piece:
This book presents and considers Snake Detection theory, which proposes that humans specialize in vision and intelligence due largely to co-evolution with snakes. A viewer’s own visceral response (or lack thereof) to the bookform itself might inform whether one agrees with the theory or not. Coiled-up blind embossed & letterpress scroll, inside snake egg felted by Laurie Whitehill
Measures approximately 9 x 22 inches when unrolled.
Materials:
felt, thread, paper, ink
About the artist:
Under her imprint Deeply Game Publications, Sara L. Press has published nineteen book works in editions that range in size from 3 to 100 copies. She is also half of MOB of TWO, a collaborative imprint with Tiana Krahn. Her projects have looked at neurodiversity, peculiar areas of overlap between nature and culture (for example: dog fighting, feral children, and our co-evolution with snakes); constructions of masculinity and femininity in our culture (e.g. bloodsports, military survival manuals, and mis-remembered fairy-tales), and the relationship between emotional and scientific reasoning (see Earth, the Bestiary, Cartoon Physics, and Our Specters). Her work is intended to expand peoples’ capacity for non-dichotomous thinking, which she feels is becoming something of a lost art.>Sara’s work can be seen by the public in more than 50 rare books collections including those at the Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and dozens of universities’ collections.
