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Miriam McGonagill
Title
not like the inhabitants of the earth
Materials and Techniques
Handmade paper w/ additions of spray paint, soil, dead bugs, leaves, and grass; waxed linen, chicken wire, and staples.
This book is focused on the memory of mixing “potions” with things from outside. The process of making paper similarly involves a lot of sludge, and I took a similar approach to incorporating things from the world around me into this book.
The activity of mixing potions often came with ideas of witches, monsters, mad scientists, and other reclusive and villainous creatures hiding in caves in imaginary worlds. The stitched surface of the paper is meant to invoke the image of Frankenstein’s creature. Since childhood, I have been fascinated with monstrosity and felt a connection the experiences of otherness from society that many of these monsters embody. This book represents different explorations of the strange, frightful, and monstrous.
