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Rebecca Wilkinson
—Selected Work



i. Self-Directed

  1. Perform—Produce
  2. Common Dimensions
  3. Dis/Assembly Chair
  4. Repair
  5. Dust Chair
  6. Saturn’s Rings
  7. (New) Mechanick Exercises
  8. Air Talk
  9. 1:1
  10. Accordion Alphabet
  11. Radical Modernism
  12. Explosion Piece
  13. Atlas
  14. Five Definitions
  15. Apart—Together
  16. Upriver


ii. Commissioned

  1. Composition
  2. Supersaturated
  3. RISD Thesis Abstracts
  4. Skyroom
  5. Vector Festival 2021
  6. Vector Festival 2020
Mark

i.6. Saturn’s Rings






Artist Book
Saturn’s Rings (after W.G. Sebald)

Saturn’s Rings is a visual translation of W.G. Sebald’s 1995 literary work, The Rings of Saturn. Designed as a 1:1 translation of the 2016 English paperback edition, this paperback book features the same margin size, typesetting, and page count as its referent. Reconstructed page-by-page, this book replaces 296 pages of the original text with images found in various art, science, nature, and historical archives.

            Saturn’s Rings features 683 archival images of objects, archeological artifacts, people, geological phenomena, astronomy, war, art and nature, and aims to reinterpret the original book’s textual content with visual symbolism, poetry, and metaphor. Using an intuitive and rhizomatic approach to collection, the process of unearthing material from archives also echoed the author’s meandering literary style.






—Edition of 35
—Format (closed): 5.375” x 8”

Purchase this book at Draw Down Books here.
Mark

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