ABOUT THE WORK
Material: wood, book ,engrave
This work is the crystallization of a coincidence that links Poeʼs only completed story “The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym”... Read More
This work is the crystallization of a coincidence that links Poeʼs only completed story “The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym” to the real story of the sinking of the Mignonette, 46 years later. In both stories, the person who succumbs to the act of cannibalism orchestrated by the other survivors has the same name: Richard Parker.
I called on a restorer of old books to create a blank 19th century pastiche book that takes up the dimensions and characteristics of the first edition of Poeʼs book. Only is integrated in one of the first pages a drypoint engraving that I made according to the front page of The Graphic of September 20, 1884 relating the event of the sinking of the mignonette.
Water beads are charged with water and expand depending on the humidity in the room.