RiTUAL. A ceremonial act ~ Rites used in the course of worship ~ The performance of ceremonial acts ~ The prescribed form of conducting the ceremony ~ A method of procedure that is followed without variation ~ performance with gestures, words, and objects, often in a sequestered place.

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Laura Holland

I am freelance writer in western Massachusetts, and I teach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For over eight years, I wrote weekly art reviews for the Valley Advocate Newspapers, and since 2006, I write a monthly column on visual art for Preview Massachusetts Magazine. I began making artist books ten years ago because I wanted to bring projects combining text and images into classes for studio art majors. Once I began making books, I was totally hooked. My day jobs depend heavily on words, so my artist books tend to go lightly on text and instead emphasize telling a story through images. I have had several one-person exhibitions, and my work has been included in group shows in the U.S. and, internationally, in Berlin and in Lviv, Ukraine.

 

 

Posing Rituals

Posing Rituals by Laura Holland
Posing Rituals by Laura Holland
Posing Rituals by Laura Holland

Playing and posing with over-sized, bright red fireproof gloves became a ritual practiced with my friends and family, sometimes revealing characteristic gestures and other times, showing wholy unexpected sides of their personalities. I took photographs of each person posing and printed the images on matte paper. Then I assembled the ritual poses together in a single-sheet book made of deep red mulberry paper.

Artwork in Ritual Single-sheet book show (2013)

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