Lost in Case
Caren Florance, with introduction by Angela Gardner
Cordite Books, 2019.
Cover by Zöe Sadokierski.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ASAL MARY GILMORE POETRY AWARD
Are you feeling helpless and angry? … This book is a shard of frustration. It’s a place to process emotion. Angry and curious, I recently dived into some dark online spaces that I hope one day will be lost, and documented words and phrases used about and against women. Many of them are ancient, others have a particularly digital twist. I’ve captured only a core sample. I wanted to process them with eye and hand, to visually transmit the grime and stab of these communications. I capture but simultaneously obfuscate, because too much of this culture relies on the thrill of being noticed. … Handset letterpress printing, the process that informs my broader creative practice, is slow and deliberate. … I’m working with the concept of printing itself: its terminology and actions are historically drawn from the human body.
