A Graph Review
This is a series of very short stories, ‘found’ using the text of words and definitions from the dictionary. Illustrations from the book are used as individual additions to the pages or in a couple of cases in splendid collage of colour. Available via Amazon and its sellers.
The stories sneak up on you. The simplicity of the text, the pre-1950 uses of language and its norm filter through, with the Standard Janet and John, not forgetting Tom’s Englishness reminding us how it was. The stories threaten to undermine our memories by thrusting us into the dark, as it were, so unlike the images. But not in this artists placement! Highlighting along the way that the old sexism of the 50’s is still with us.
The time and effort of the artist in producing the series of ‘found’ stories and the re-arrangement of the images to illustrate them warrants applause. This is certainly a ‘found’ book that deserves to be bought for both amusement and serious consideration of how little we may actually have developed over the last seventy years.
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