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.