I Desire You Would Remember the Ladies (2017)
Artist book, edition of 10
This artist book includes documentation of the site specific installation I Desire You Would Remember the Ladies by Vanessa Nieto Romero and photographed by Cesar Faustino and Savannah Barkley. The images resonate with fragments of the poem Mrs. Kessler from Spoon River Anthology, written in 1916 by Edgar Lee Masters.
The contemplative action of folding, unfolding and revealing is evoked in this book as a way to praise and remember the labor of immigrant women and how these historical facts resonate in our contemporary political arena.
The texts are letterpress printed, using polymer plates, and the photographs are laser printed on Washi Natural heavy weight of 80 g/m2. The covers are made with muslin fabric, which was used for the sac pillows in the installation. The sections are stitched and bound by hand.
I Desire You Would Remember the Ladies was made possible with a Graduate Students Project Grant, awarded by Graduate Studies from the Rhode Island School of Design.
This piece was printed and bound by Vanessa Nieto Romero, in collaboration with Cesar Faustino in an edition of 10 artist books.
Summer of 2017. Providence, Rhode Island.
Photographs and video by Andrey Pimienta.
