Artists’ book – THE VOICE OF THE FOX / Among the Redwoods
To order, please contact Felicia at frice@movingpartspress.com.
THE VOICE OF THE FOX / Among the Redwoods
Poem by Angel Dominguez
Bookwork and images by Felicia Rice
Limited edition of 40 books, each accompanied by Desgraciado (the collected letters) by Angel Dominguez. $650
Deluxe edition of 5 books, each accompanied by Desgraciado (the collected letters) and Rice’s relief print, Among the Redwoods. $750
Print, Among the Redwoods, edition of 50 copies. $100
What ancient wisdom is activated when artists come together across time and space in a work that asks its readers to consider “the speed at which our electrons rush to reach each other” in relation to the deep time of the redwood forest?
The poem at the heart of The Voice of the Fox is addressed to Diego de Landa, the 16th-century Spanish Franciscan friar who attempted to eradicate the Maya civilization through the burning of invaluable codices containing knowledge of Maya religious, spiritual, and cultural life.
This limited-edition artists’ book draws on the Dresden Codex, one of just four surviving Maya codices, for its accordion-fold structure, scale, proportions, and page design in which red outlines delineate sacred space.
The Voice of the Fox seeks to imbue the reader with a cohesive forest-centered experience. The book reflects the enduring resilience of the natural world as well as the rebellious resistance to colonization, as it wrestles with the passage and scale of time itself.
From the CHICANX/LATINX SERIES Artists’ Books
Since 1989, this series has explored the intersection of cultures, disciplines, and book structures. These works by contemporary Chicanx/Latinx artists and writers in translation are issued in both limited and trade editions. They are the result of a close collaboration between the writers, artists, and the book artist Felicia Rice.