Marianne R. Petit
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1
Media: My Anatomical Journal: Notes from the Body in the 21st Century is a six-spread pop-up book inspired by antique medical books. The journal features anatomical flaps and pop-ups exploring various systems (ocular, auditory, musculoskeletal, and circulatory/respiratory) as well as the human skull and hand.The book is also accompanied by a soundtrack of first-person accounts of the body as it is experienced through health, illness, and accident, typically, atypically, ever-changing. For the exhibition, this will be provided through an MP3 player and headphones
Artist Statement : I am an artist and educator whose work explores fairy tales, the body, graphic and narrative medicine, as well as collective storytelling practices through mechanical books that combine animation and paper craft. My interests are in combining technology, traditional book arts, and sequential storytelling to create new forms of narrative for the 21st century. My movable books can be found in museum, library, and university collections internationally including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the British Library, Children’s Literature Library of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Boston Public Library, Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, Harvard Medical School Countway Library, Savannah College of Art & Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Scripps College, the Struwwelpeter Museum, Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, The Wellcome Collection, as well as many private collections.