SCRAPPED
2018
Six Artist Books with Clamshell Boxes:
letterpress & xerox transfer prints on rust-stained
kitikata papers, book board, Icelandic fish skins.
(ea) 11 x 8.75 x .5 inches
Content for Scrapped was extracted from Brooke’s family memorabilia—a photograph* that she has revisited once again. It was the inspiration for four earlier artist books**.
For Scrapped she wrote the poem, In the Wave of the Father,*** and used it to shape the work.
*Photograph of the Enterprise, the aircraft carrier on which her grandfather was one of its captains during WWII. During his term, a Kami Kazi pilot bombed the carrier. The photo documents a hole in its deck from the explosion with the crew standing by.
**Tiers Asunder (2017), Withdrawn (2013), AndBut_1 (2013), Pas(t)ime (2010).
***IN THE WAVE OF THE FATHER
CARRIER
it had a name
when it hit it it hit at it it
it
had a name
it it it it it it at it it at him
a name
a child’s name
:eyeballs:
see he believed
his name named to live
his name
:eyeballs:
it itat it itat it at it hit at it
at itself self he hit
eyeballs hit eyeballs hit
balls eye believed
bless me father for
I have skin
AIR
blasted sails
toilet paper m i l e s
rolls
w a t e r s r o l l i n g
a wind didn’t wait
pul l s t ugs
tugs p u l l e d
a r r o w s thRashEd
blunders billow against
opaque
walls so white
no corners
CRAFT
bless father
cough up
turn back
sin
gravel pit
up
hardscrabb le cuts rubble
lift
m ant led
br ok en c ob bled t’s
sh red s ja gs scr ee eeeeeeeee
bless me
father sinned
full stop
bless bless
