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From a 100-page accordion book: slideshow

June 13, 2011

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Here is the first book for the Lucerne Project. Click on the image above to play a short slideshow. The book consists of eight pages, each 6.5 " high by 11" wide, in an accordion fold that opens out to be 89" wide. The method of making the book was as follows: Trawl the internet for publicly-available photos of Lucerne that people have uploaded to the web. Print out small jpegs. Xerox the jpegs and enlarge by as much as 1000%. Ink and print the xeroxes onto light grey printmaking paper. Write a short phrase suggested by each image. Edit the phrases slightly so that they connect to each other. Print each phrase onto the corresponding print. Glue the pages into one long strip, with the division between each page scored so that they can be folded up accordion-style. Already I can see how this method might be a way of producing a narrative about people I've never met, in a place I've never been, while still retaining a poetic quality to the combination of

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'The Lucerne Project': forthcoming exhibition

100 page accordion book using images of Lucerne found on the internet Last week, I formally accepted an offer to exhibit materials from The Lucerne Project at a gallery in Chicago, this coming October, 2011. Below is a short description of the exhibition: Title : The Lucerne Project Venue : Finestra Art Space (link), The Fine Arts Building, Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Brief description : Artist Philip Hartigan documents personal narratives about people he’s never met, in a place he’s never been, using artist’s books, written narrative, animation, and a blog. Short artist’s statement : I make art based on personal narrative, using 'damaged photos' which I transform into prints, books, objects. Often the personal narrative is my own, based on memories of growing up in a mining town in the north of England. Sometimes I use the personal narratives of other people. The Lucerne Project is an extension of this. It starts from the fact that Chicago, USA, where I now live, and Luce

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