Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes by Spencer Dew
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres weaves worlds and eras to speak a universal language—a language lamenting the complexities of grieving. In this immersive narrative, Spencer Dew adopts Henry Adams's classic meditation on gothic architecture as a contextual framework to explore one woman’s stages of mourning as she returns to a home left long ago to watch an already distant mother slip away.
Featuring a DIY scale model of the cathedral at Chartres and transparent overlays, we might be so bold as to suggest that the book is a rather handsomely prepared object.
44-page book with 15-piece Chartres kit, handmade and numbered • 2010
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres weaves worlds and eras to speak a universal language—a language lamenting the complexities of grieving. In this immersive narrative, Spencer Dew adopts Henry Adams's classic meditation on gothic architecture as a contextual framework to explore one woman’s stages of mourning as she returns to a home left long ago to watch an already distant mother slip away.
Featuring a DIY scale model of the cathedral at Chartres and transparent overlays, we might be so bold as to suggest that the book is a rather handsomely prepared object.
44-page book with 15-piece Chartres kit, handmade and numbered • 2010
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres weaves worlds and eras to speak a universal language—a language lamenting the complexities of grieving. In this immersive narrative, Spencer Dew adopts Henry Adams's classic meditation on gothic architecture as a contextual framework to explore one woman’s stages of mourning as she returns to a home left long ago to watch an already distant mother slip away.
Featuring a DIY scale model of the cathedral at Chartres and transparent overlays, we might be so bold as to suggest that the book is a rather handsomely prepared object.
44-page book with 15-piece Chartres kit, handmade and numbered • 2010
Spencer Dew was heading to California by Greyhound in 1998 when he decided to walk out of the bus station and stay in Chicago. His art and book reviews have appeared in decomP, Rain Taxi, Newcity, and the late Chicago Artists’ News; his cultural criticism in Religion Dispatches and Sightings; and his stories in THE2NDHAND and Thieves Jargon. Books: Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2008) and Learning for Revolution: the Work of Kathy Acker (San Diego State University Press, 2010)