Untravelling - Mary Frances
Untravelling - Mary Frances
Full-colour, Perfect-bound Paperback and limited edition (57-copy) Hardback 210 x 148mm, 76pp
anything is possible nothing is clear there are many miles to go and no map to follow
departure - the ghost lands - the burning - mirror - the fading
through five sequences of miniature landscapes found in stone, metal, wood and tarpaulin, each paired with a cut-up poem created from viewers’ responses to the images, mary frances invites us to find our way though a mysterious dark and dreamlike world, both beautiful and unsettling
the air has the feel and smell of dawn a distant shiver of lost magic
we are on unknown land anything is something to aim for we sharpen our eyes
untravelling
details of walls — usually barriers to vision and motion — are alchemised into dreamtime worlds alien and distantly familiar: each one a blakean diorama that both embraces and transcends the everyday. the interplay of words and pictures generates a fractal, visionary potency that, with a tenderness and a quiet drama, beckons us toward the horizons of imagination. — david foster
mary frances has masterfully created this compendium of visceral, troubling, visionary images and text-fragments. Its persistence of ambient beats, dream-stories, and scroll-like images form an alternative universe that prepares us for contemplations that are prophetic, schizophrenic, and ‘now’. this chronicle of apocalypse is of an endless, distorted world of presences and surfaces, removed, beautiful and frightening. — robert frede kenter
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