La Cité des Animaux

La Cité des Animaux

Animals In Art

Artists' Books--Washington (State)--Mercer Island

This is an original collaged book opening up to reveal a parade of strange, whimsical animals creeping through a deserted white city. Skordal expertly creates juxapositions using scissor-and-paper collage to provoke the viewer. It harkens to a hidden city described within Italo Calvino's, "Invisible Cities": where forgotten fauna were coming back, "leaping from the capitals and drainpipes...resuming possession of their city." (160). The animal images are reproduced from A. Seba's 'Naturalium Thesauri,' published in 1731 as well as other antique works. Locket on front cover opens to reveal 3D collage.

Edition 1:1

Skordal, Lynn

Self-published

Mercer Island, WA

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Materials/Printing: collage, ink-jet images, book scraps, book cloth, air-dry clay, repurposed metal locket, watercolor, vellum papers, cloth-covered boards (cover), string, metal-clasp, air-dry clay, metal locket.

Structure/Folds: accordion fold. Stored in own box.

Dimensions: 8 unnumbered pages; 31 x 25 x 5 cm (container), 23 x 22 x 2 cm (closed), 23 x 220 x 1 cm (open)

artists' books (books)

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

2011

The original object was photographed with a NIKON D300 digital camera at 300 ppi as a JPEG file format. The JPEG file was then modified in Adobe Photoshop.

Photographer Marie A. Andrews

8 total views: front view, interior view, overhead view