String Theory, Understanding Coincidence in the Multi-verse, Volume II
String Theory, Understanding Coincidence in the Multi-verse, Volume II
Date
2013
Edition Size
unique
Media
Embroidery
Binding
Hand-sewn
Format
Artist Book
Dimensions
18 × 15 × 5 in
Pages
48
Collection
Unique Books$ 16,000.00
Unavailable
String Theory, Understanding Coincidence in the Multi-verse, Volume II refers to science fiction novels, including staples such as Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and William Gibson. It also references Nicole Krauss, Cesar Aira, Michael Chabon, Audrey Niffenegger, Chuck Palaniuk, Banksy, Damien Hirst, Jasper Fforde, Evelyn Waugh, Jonathan Lethem, Vladimir Nabokov, Kevin Kelly, J. K. Rowling, Brian Greene, Carl Sagan, and Jerry Seinfeld.
String Theory Volume II is a unique book from Hicks’ Common Threads series – a variant series of hand-embroidered canvas books, copying the form and design of dime-store “composition” books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events. The use of embroidery thread allows for the production of both the text and image with the same mark and material, rendering the text, image and substance of the book inseparable.
String Theory was catalyzed by the artist’s search for a grand unifying theory that would explain the coincidental phenomena that the artist has observed and documented in the last decade of her creative work. The supreme coherence evinced by String Theory is cultivated through the masterful unification of subject matter, composition, and form.
Storytelling is key to Hicks’ artistic practice. There is an implied narrative in everything, even, as Hicks addresses with her work, in the seemingly pointless mental-wheel-spinning that is a part of daily life. Her work acknowledges the unavoidability of simulation and the impossibility of originality. Her choice of the book as a principle medium stems from the idea of books as authoritative; they provide an arena in which fiction can be accepted as fact and observations can take on a mythic narrative quality. Her interest in books also derives from their inherent unity of text and image, which lends books continued relevance as a transmedia hybrid.
Unique hand-sewn book with hand-tied binding (providing the possibility for the book to be unbound for exhibition). 48 pages. 18 x 15 x 5.” 2013.