Here/Gone (2008)

Here/Gone: An ABC Flip Book for Grown Ups (2008)
Karen Green
Perfect bound, invertible flipbook. 215 x 215 mm. [56] pages. Acquired from AbeBooks, 14 March 2019.
Photos: Emilia Osztafi*. Displayed with the author/artist’s permission.

here/gone is a story of two parts, the arrival of love and its departure. “Zipping and unzipping the alphabet in a narrative of love and unlove” as the Spineless Books website describes it, here/gone tells its story with mixed media paintings and minimal text across the right hand pages of its invertible flip book structure, each page’s text beginning with a letter of the alphabet. The flipping pages of here enact love’s zipping together two characters, the flipping pages of gone enact “unlove’s” unzipping them apart.

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