Cariston Fawcett
Cariston Fawcett. Broken
Thread: Laughter and Tears responds to Hommage à Etty Hillesum
It is the unusual choice of
materials including steel as well as the idea of past memories that Cariston
Fawcett responds to in the book Hommage à Etty Hillesum. She is
drawn to artists’ books because of the tactile relationship the viewer
experiences with the physicality of a work. The materials and texts brought
together in this bookwork embody fragmented memories and stories of her family
who has a tree farm in Ontario. Deploying cuttings from a tree, she has laser
printed a selection of ancestor’s writings discovered in the attic of her
family’s home. She insists on the importance for her to curate the found
texts of family members that date in some cases from 100 years ago and
underlines "the importance of utilizing “raw materials” associated
with her family."
Cariston Fawcett, in her
final year of studies in the Studio Arts (Print Media minor).
Video edited by Tod Van Dyk. Footage shot by Isabelle Fleurelien.
Book photos taken by Isabelle Fleurelien, 2018.
Text based on written and spoken interviews between curator Melinda Reinhart and Cariston Fawcett.