Undāre

Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition)

Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ

Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ

Book binder: Belle Fleure

Undāre From the Latin word to flow, undulate and/or rise in waves

This book is a reflective work that creates an intimate and personal space to contemplate water.

It’s spiritual and purifying properties as well as its more ominous and foreboding qualities are the focus. Water provides us with a primal connection that reaches beyond ourselves to our collective memories and histories. The meditative trance in its stillness, ripples, swirling eddies or rushing water is what Undāre embodies.

Water has recently shifted to a monetary commodity, highlighting its potential loss through Climate change. The viewer is invited to ponder its value and look beyond its surface challenging our mortality as well as that of the planet.

The elements in this work represent the building blocks that sustains us and the experience of reading it a ceremony. The book is water, the pages its flow and the stone what lies beneath. Its container suggests a commemoratory vessel honouring the memory of something that has yet to pass.

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Undāre

Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition)

Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ

Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ

Book binder: Belle Fleure

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Undāre

Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition)

Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ

Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ

Book binder: Belle Fleure