Asylum bound, 2013-2018. Found pages from books/catalogues/guides, cotton thread, dimensions various
Begun as a material aside or foil to film and sound work, Asylum Bound is a series of hand-stitched books made from discarded pages in a discontinuous arrangement that makes use of misalignment. Each time a page is turned, a variant appears in the commentary.
![<p><em>Untitled (asylum stab-bound)</em>, 2013 found pages from 8 books/catalogues/guides, cotton thread, 32 pages, single fold 27 x 23 x 0.2cm closed, 27 x 40.5cm open pages: Higgins, Reynold, Jewellery From Classical Lands, The British Museum, 1965. (inscribed $8) Pictorial Guide to Pagan, Ministry of Culture, Archaeology Department, Socialist republic of the Union of Burma, Rangoon, 1955, pp.25,26, 31,32. (inscribed $4) Symonds, R.W., A Book of English Clocks, King Penguin, London, New York, 1947, pp.47,48,49,50. (inscribed $15 – Vasrel [?] Stokes June 1947) Trendall, A.D., The Felton Greek Vases in the National Gallery of Victoria, The Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1958. (inscribed K Jamieson 11 Tower St. Surreyhills, (.), 9 412-) Genders, Roy, Miniature Roses, Blandford Pres, London, 1960, pp.49,50,51,52. (inscribed LII/6 $15-) Zikmund, M. & Hanzelka, J., Turkey ; Minarets, Figs, Cinderellas, ARTIA, Czechoslovakia, 1962, pp. 24,25,26, 27. (inscribed Richard M. Court 17 Riverside Road Ivanhoe N.21 5/13 $1.50)Victoria Pitman, Isaac, Pitmans Pocket Shorthand Dictionary, New Era Edition, Sit Isaac Pitman & Sons, Melbourne & New York, pp. 113, 116, 117, 118. Higgins, Reynold, Jewellery From Classical Lands, The British Museum, 1965. Rawson, Phillip, Indian Sculpture, a Dutton vista pictureback, London 1968. (inscribed 732.4 $5)</p>](https://martina21.frb.io/media/pages/work/asylum-bound/3f289bc698-1698052511/martina-copley-asylum-bound-2013-2018-1-2048x-q90.jpg)
Untitled (asylum stab-bound), 2013 found pages from 8 books/catalogues/guides, cotton thread, 32 pages, single fold 27 x 23 x 0.2cm closed, 27 x 40.5cm open pages: Higgins, Reynold, Jewellery From Classical Lands, The British Museum, 1965. (inscribed $8) Pictorial Guide to Pagan, Ministry of Culture, Archaeology Department, Socialist republic of the Union of Burma, Rangoon, 1955, pp.25,26, 31,32. (inscribed $4) Symonds, R.W., A Book of English Clocks, King Penguin, London, New York, 1947, pp.47,48,49,50. (inscribed $15 – Vasrel [?] Stokes June 1947) Trendall, A.D., The Felton Greek Vases in the National Gallery of Victoria, The Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1958. (inscribed K Jamieson 11 Tower St. Surreyhills, (.), 9 412-) Genders, Roy, Miniature Roses, Blandford Pres, London, 1960, pp.49,50,51,52. (inscribed LII/6 $15-) Zikmund, M. & Hanzelka, J., Turkey ; Minarets, Figs, Cinderellas, ARTIA, Czechoslovakia, 1962, pp. 24,25,26, 27. (inscribed Richard M. Court 17 Riverside Road Ivanhoe N.21 5/13 $1.50)Victoria Pitman, Isaac, Pitmans Pocket Shorthand Dictionary, New Era Edition, Sit Isaac Pitman & Sons, Melbourne & New York, pp. 113, 116, 117, 118. Higgins, Reynold, Jewellery From Classical Lands, The British Museum, 1965. Rawson, Phillip, Indian Sculpture, a Dutton vista pictureback, London 1968. (inscribed 732.4 $5)
Asylum bound, 2013-2018. Found pages from books/catalogues/guides, cotton thread, dimensions various
Asylum bound, 2013-2018. Found pages from books/catalogues/guides, cotton thread, dimensions various