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Julie Johnstone

Over six printed facing pages, this work plays with book form by reversing and overlapping a short epigrammatic quotation from Kierkegaard. Use the tool below to see if you can discover its meaning.

Julie Johnstone

Reproduced by permission of the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see Terms and Conditions, and for copyright and citation enquiries please Ask a Librarian.

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21st century poems everyday life existence memory philosophy time time passing visual poetry

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Published Essence Press, 2018
Dimensions h 6 x w 14 cm
Materials 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper

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Julie Johnstone

Julie Johnstone is an artist, publisher and independent curator. Her practice encompasses book works, poetry objects and installations which engage a minimalist aesthetic to explore themes of perception and place, and the meditative qualities of poetic language and space.
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