AB, Gorham
Omaha, NE
www.abgorham.com
IG: @gorhamab

Claim Number: 27-56T4-25P
2023
Letterpress printed and handsewn leather pillows stuffed with raw flax fiber, bound with copper piping
30″x20″x6″ closed; 30″x40″x6″ open

Artist Statement

Claim Number: 27-56T4-25P condenses the sensations, colors, and
language of an emergency situation, based on the experience in August 2023 of my five year old daughter being hit by a car while riding her scooter. To endure an emergency event of this kind, from a place of privilege, with a positive outcome, was no less shocking or disorienting.

This book object uses poetry, other visual representations of language, and materials to spark that sense of urgency and impossibility that accompanies an emergency. Comprised of three leather pillows bound together with copper pipes, the large ‘E’ asks, How do we continue to pay attention when surrounded by chaos?The pillows are letterpress printed using handset metal type in Shaded Bodoni on the leather and Helvetica woodtype on the crash, then stuffed with raw flax fiber.