Mary Heebner
Arctic Trilogy, 2024
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press
One of fifteen copies, signed by Heebner.
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Three quarto vols. A trio of Heebner's concerned meditations on the perilous status of the arctic landscape, based on two ship voyages undertaken in 2017 and 2023. Under the title...
Three quarto vols. A trio of Heebner's concerned meditations on the perilous status of the arctic landscape, based on two ship voyages undertaken in 2017 and 2023. Under the title Vanishing Tracks, Heebner mourns the current ephemerality of the polar bear. In two volumes under the single title of In Arctic Light, she narrates her experiences as visitor to and observer of the terrain, while impressing upon the reader how beautiful it all is, "more so knowing that it is leaving us." In Frazil: New Ice Forming, in terms both metaphorical and directly scientific she considers the regenerative cycle of water and ice and that cycle's frightening fragility. "Who will remember the ice?" she asks. Each book accordion-fold, with Heebner's prints throughout embellished by hand with pigment and ink. Text printed letterpress. Each book housed in a chemise with hand-painted covers and sub-covers. An emotional set, layered materially, artistically, and structurally. Very fine. Held in tripartite acrylic slipcase.
