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  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors
  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors
  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors
  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors
  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors
  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors
  • WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors

WITH A BLUE BACKDROP FOR COMPANY by Various Authors

135 x 202mm, 40 pages, Colour printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2024

This pamphlet is an exercise in unraveling, it aims to reverse a faltering technique - ekphrasis - traditionally heralded as the verbal depiction of visual art. We tasked Gabriella Day with an experiment, inviting her to craft responses in paint to texts submitted by our readers for the night. The central question is one of representation. Perhaps more interestingly, the paintings disrupt the temporal schema of language. The hope is that this stilling of language will reveal something previously taken for granted, as the saying goes : language is language is language.

Contributors: Gabriella Day, GF Ramsay, Amelia Barratt, Sean Wai Keung, Jude Browning, Caitlin Merrett King, Saoirse Wall, Eden BØ Dower,

Published by

Waterwings Press

£12.00