Eli Brooke
Devotional transcription sequence (a thesis trailer)
book arts
12” x 6” x 6”
A quick flip-through of seven repurposed report binders containing a variety of one of a kind works on utilitarian and everyday paper items. The text of resonant quotes from books or talks have been applied to these pieces by typewriter, stencil, and rubber alphabet stamps.
The Telling (helix)
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Dimensions: 12” x 6” x 6”
Library catalog cards folded into boxes form a spiral containing thirteen 7” x 5” legal ruled yellow notepad pages. Each folded piece of paper contains a different typewritten excerpt from the novel The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin, with page citations.
“if it had been possible”
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folded page 10” x ~4”, clear plastic report binder 11” x 9”, expandable file folder 11.5” x 9.5” x 1”
Excerpts from the novel The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin applied with rubber alphabet stamps using metallic pigment inks to a folded portion of a magazine page, housed in repurposed office supplies.
“straightforward is not the geometry of space”
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Dimensions vary
A found map with excerpts from Jeanette Winterson’s novella Weight applied with hand-cut stencils and rubber alphabet stamps. Originally 24” x 21” flat, the map has been crumpled repeatedly and balled up for storage. Although it resembles a molded topographical map, the surface transforms with every interaction.
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transcription as a devotional practice (website)
website gallery
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The website "transcription as a devotional practice" (URL https://elibrooke.cargo.site/) serves as an online gallery for my thesis work, and is the most thorough way to interact with it. The virtual platform allows display of the work through video, still photos, and scans, as well as links to external media and resources to encourage viewers to seek out the work of the authors and thinkers whose words I've excerpted.
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image gallery menu on website
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website
Thumbnail images at the bottom of each project page link to all other parts of the site. Formatted for mobile.
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The Telling (helix)
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Library catalog cards. Folded notepad pages. Typewriter.
12” x 6” x 6” (helix structure)
Helix structure made from folded library catalog cards, shown here emptied of folded notebook pages with typewritten excerpts from the novel “The Telling” by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The Telling (helix) unfolded pages
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Yellow legal-ruled notebook paper. Typewriter.
5" x 8" (each page, before folding)
Screenshot of website gallery. Enlargeable scans of every page included in "The Telling (helix)."
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"if it had been possible" (website documentation)
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Magazine page. Rubber alphabet stamps. Metallic pigment stamp pad ink.
~10” x 4” (folded piece)
Screenshot of website documentation of project, which includes video and enlargeable photographs.
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"if it had been possible" (detail)
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Magazine page. Rubber alphabet stamps. Metallic pigment stamp pad ink.
~10” x 4” (full piece)
Excerpt from the novel "The Telling" by Ursula K. Le Guin transcribed over folded magazine imagery, housed in transparent plastic report binder.
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"if it had been possible" (detail)
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Magazine page. Rubber alphabet stamps. Metallic pigment stamp pad ink.
Excerpt from the novel "The Telling" by Ursula K. Le Guin transcribed over folded magazine imagery, housed in transparent plastic report binder.
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references for "The Telling" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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website
My thesis project centers the words of others; when I show the work in person I include the books that the works reference. Creating a website allowed me to offer external links to the primary work for reference as well as other media and resources for further research.
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"straightforward is not the geometry of space" (website documentation)
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Stencils. Paint pen. Rubber alphabet stamps. Pigment stamp pad ink. Gel pen.
Flat 21” x 24 map has been crumpled, dimensions shift with every interaction
Screenshot of website documentation of project, which includes video and enlargeable photos.
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"a fraction of the universe" (website documentation)
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website gallery
Screenshot of website documentation of project, with thumbnails of enlargeable photos; the first two images when zoomed in are legible scans. Formatted for mobile. Excerpts from Jeanette Winterson’s novella “Weight (The Myth of Atlas and Heracles).”
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"a fraction of the universe" (detail)
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Conservation plot map. Typewriter.
7.5" x 9" (full map)
Detail of excerpts from Jeanette Winterson’s novella "Weight (The Myth of Atlas and Heracles)" typed in brown ink over found map.
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SPACETIME ("unified field of phenomena")
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College ruled 3-ring notebook paper. Graph paper. Stencils. Rubber alphabet stamps. Pigment stamp pad ink. Liquid metallic ink pen.
8.5” x 11”
Excerpts from "The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception & Language in a More-Than-Human World" by David Abram.
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Red-Blooded (white american masc) - detail
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Magazine page. Typewriter.
5.75” x 4.5”
Found imagery and poem combine to bring the invisible intergenerational trauma (masquerading as the culture) of toxic white american masculinity to light. Poem: “Ode to the Unsayable” by Keith Leonard, from his book Ramshackle Ode, 2016.
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"if you don't know that story" (secret links)
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website
Full work is a repurposed report binder holding 13 sheet protectors that contain process work created during my thesis semester. It includes both transcriptions and drawings that have not yet found a standalone form, but are in conversation with one another. Excerpts from writing by or interviews with Joy Harjo, Thomas King, David Abram, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tomson Highway, Gregory Cajete, and Harry Dodge are displayed separately on individual pages for each author, linked at the bottom of this project page only.
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"if you don't know that story" (Joy Harjo excerpt)
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Green 3-ring wide ruled notebook paper. Typewriter with purple and orange ribbon.
8.5” x 11” (full sheet)
Detail from typed transcription of 1996 interview with Joy Harjo, included in "if you don't know that story."
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"if you don't know that story" (Tomson Highway excerpt)
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Dot matrix printer paper. Typewriter with black and red ribbon. Black gel pen.
5.5" x 8.5"
Detail from typed transcription of 2012 interview with Tomson Highway with copied drawings, included in “if you don’t know that story.”
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"if you don't know that story" (mathemagical drawing)
drawing
Red and gold liquid ink pens. Ruler. Triangular graph inkjet-printed over 3-ring notebook graph paper.
8.5” x 11”
Meditative drawing using intersections of layered grids to create geometric patterns. Included in "if you don't know that story."