Books On Books Collection – Suzanne Moore (III)

Dreamings (2023)

Dreamings (2023)
Suzanne Moore
Artist’s manuscript. Softcover, handsewn. Cloth-covered box with handwritten and painted title pastedown on the spine. H368 x W178 mm. 17 pages. A unique edition. Acquired from the artist, 15 April 2024.
Photos: Books On Books Collection and artist.

Dreamings (2023) follows the artist’s Question Series, begun in 2008 considering questions of life and art while exploring the letter Q – “that quirky letter of distinct design” as Moore calls it. Other works in the series include:

Thirteen Questions  (2008), drawn from Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions (1991) [Libro de las preguntas (1974)], unknown location.*

Studies in Love the Question (2016), now at the Letterform Archive.

Inquiry (2019), unknown location.*

Seeing Red: Seven Questions (2019), unknown location.*

Trust (2019), now at the Boston Athenaeum.

The Question (2021), drawn from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Now at Baylor University.

Your Question, Please (2022), unknown location.*

Rescuing Q (2023), now at the Bodleian Libraries.

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