La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France

Bound by Kathy Abbott

La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France
Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Recreated by Kitty Maryatt.
Two Hands Press, 2018
366 x 105 x 28.5mm
Photography by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

A three-flap enclosure, held closed with magnets, covered in Hewit's full alum-tawed goatskin with multi-coloured onlays.

"My inspiration for this binding came from the poem: cold, white, snowy Siberian weather, naivety of adolescence and the many references to wheels and circles. I wanted to convey the feeling of the movement of the train along with the fragmented reminiscences of the poet. The colours of the onlays were taken from the pochoir and the image starts with a red semi-circle and ends with yellow one; this was taken from this line of the poem: 'if I were a painter, I would pour a lot of red and yellow at the end of this journey'."

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