Admeasure

By Michelle Ray
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Michelle Ray, 2011. Edition of 35.

8.125 x 3 x .25"; 24 pages. Accordion structure attached to back board. Text and image printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum blocks on handmade and Somerset Book papers. Housed in envelope with tab closure.

Michelle Ray: "The act of naming things creates a sense of relative safety at sea. Like the pilot's verse that guided sailors through dangerous shoals, Admeasure is about gaining a false sense of control through signifiers and ritual that guide one through a world that is largely uncontrollable. This book explores the dialectic tension between the dangerous unknown and measure, rules, and tradition. While at sea, measurements, maritime law, navigation aids and other modes of dominance through organization are easily lost to the forces of nature and the psychology of a journey. The content of Admeasure draws from a variety of archetypal journeys including Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Homer's Odyssey, Bas Jan Ader's In Search of the Miraculous, and my own time spent in small boats."
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