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Weirdsville 2011
Using collaged imagery and a narative she wrote herself, China transformed "Lobbyists," a photo essay by Neil Selkirk, into a forty-page graphic novel |
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Pressing Questions 2010
Written in doggerel instead of free verse, with substantial visual imagery joined to a text made up of fancy type appropriated from fabric, variously ornamented and altered, in combination with invented letters. |
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The First Black Book 2009
Text only. A description of a beating heart, dark (white text on black fabric, with a black cover) because it’s literally an inside story...... |
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The Second Black Book 2009
Text and illustrations. An account of memory of and longing for a particular place. Dark (white text on black fabric, with a black cover) because of the depth of memory and the pain of longing. |
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A Book of Horses 2008
Imagery only—no text—a kind of illustrated manuscript about horses, history, and the idea of horses. |
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Book of Lives 2008
Imagery only—no text—an illustrated manuscript about contemporary characters. |
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The First Black Book 2009
Text only. A description of a beating heart, dark (white text on black fabric, with a black cover) because it’s literally an inside story. With a sound track by the artist. |
The Second Black Book 2009
An account of memory of and longing for a particular place. Dark (white text on black fabric, with a black cover) because of the depth of memory and the pain of longing. With a sound track by the artist. |
The Reckoning 2009
Details of The Reckoning, a 2009 sewn drawing based on a Renaissance painting, with a wordless vocal sound track by the artist. |
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A Book of Horses (silent) 2008
China’s gloved hands turn the pages of A Book of Horses, with pans and closeups of details. |
Book of Lives (silent) 2008
China’s gloved hands turn the pages of Book of Lives, with pans and closeups of detail |
Dreamgirls (silent) 2007
China’s gloved hands turn the pages of Dream Girls, with pans and closeups of details |
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China Marks at work on ‘A Letter From Home’ 2007
Showing China’s working process as she explains what she is doing. |
Ganesh Mask 2010
Ganesh, in the form of an Indian dance mask, lifts his trunk every time China yanks his cord. (See The Ganesh Collection.) |
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