Ingrid Hein Borch
Side by Side
Hand sewn with linen thread, end sheets of handmade paper; marbled cover papers; mounted on folded Circa paper.
6 x 10.5 x 1 cm
Text in book:
One earring book:
What after all
Is a halo?
It is only
One more thing
To keep clean.
By Christopher Fry
The other earring book:
MISSING LINK
Man's a kind of missing link
fondly thinking he can think.
By Piet Hein
Artist's Statement: This work is a set of earrings, consisting of two tiny books. One book has a quotation by Christopher Fry and the other a "Grook" by Piet Hein.
Ingrid Hein Borch was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she studied hat design, and clothing, patternmaking, and tailoring, and where she worked as a milliner and hat designer. She studied design and photography in Chicago, ceramics in California, and weaving, calligraphy, drawing and painting, and jewellery in Calgary. She studied bookbinding in Calgary and at the University of Iowa. Exhibitions include CBBAG's The Art of the Book '98 and The Art of the Book '03.
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