The Subtle Serpent
Fort Lauderdale FL: Dorothy Simpson Krause, 2018. Hardcover. A unique book signed by the book artist. Dorothy Krause is a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and featured in numerous current periodicals and books. In her artist's statement she says: "My work includes large scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between these two forms. It embeds archetypal symbols and fragments of image and text in multiple layers of texture and meaning. It combines the humblest of materials, plaster, tar, wax and pigment, with the latest in technology to evoke the past and herald the future. My art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media in an ongoing dialogue – a visible means of exploring meaning." This intriguing book from Krause was inspired by the biblical verse from Genesis about the serpent, “more subtle than any beast of the field” that convinced the woman Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden thus causing her expulsion with Adam from Eden. The 24 stanzas from Genesis describing this event are included in this small book, interspersed with garden images and painted or collaged pages. The book has a Coptic binding with mica covers . It is housed in a black cloth covered clamshell box with an unusual large snake rattle affixed to the front cover. In fine condition. Measures 3 x 2½ x ½ inches. Unpaginated [126 pages]. ARTB/011724. Fine. More