{"product_id":"the-eyelash-and-the-monochrome-by-tiziana-la-melia-9781772011975","title":"The Eyelash and the Monochrome","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVancouver-based La Melia was the winner of the 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, but painting is just one of the mediums she employs. First and foremost, she is a poet. The poetic path followed by La Melia travels through territories as varied as daily and domestic activities, social relationships, literature, cinema, art, or dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe is not set on any particular medium, using the opportunities given by a still or moving image, drawing, painting, sculpture, or performance to embody the different aspects of her relationship with her material and symbolic environment. Writing, a process which on the one hand releases the self-fictional character of this work, and on the other hand, allows the birth of new potentialities to determine things, appears as the architectural frame supporting the whole creative work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContinuing with research recently presented in \u003cem\u003eBroom Emotion\u003c\/em\u003e (chapbook 2012, exhibition in Paris 2017), where \"stories of witchcraft, farmyards, domestic rites mingle with vapourous comical ageless kitsch,\" this new collection of poems continues to describe the residue of cosmetologies and fates marbling with sweat and tears on shimmering streaks in ponds and other cinematic clichés like the hopeful rainbow in puddles or giving weeds a chance. This collection takes as a starting point a poem in progress printed on a set of single \"bed spreads\" displayed in Tiziana's exhibition \u003cem\u003eThe Eyelash and the Monochrome\u003c\/em\u003e at Mercer Union in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeas for the work come from various conversations with poets and artists to whom the work pays tribute (for example, Ada Smailbegovic, Nestor Kruger). The writing works through the struggles of how to gain agency when you hit up against the limitations, the margins of domestic space, class, sexuality, and other limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLot\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) foreshadowed \u003cem\u003eEyelash\u003c\/em\u003e, where during the Poets Theatre Festival led by Dodi Bellamy and Kevin Killian at The Apartment Gallery in Vancouver, an earlier version of the text appeared as \u003cem\u003eLot Potpourri\u003c\/em\u003e in collaboration with Julian Hou and performers\/writers Andrea Actis and Emily Fedoruk. Lot, eyelash, and brooding snails emerge out of spam, neck spasms, survival, rumours, and naïve misunderstandings that mutate as edges of thought and feeling (not necessarily linguistic) turn to form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen material becomes thought and thought becomes object—a streak of paint, or an \u003cem\u003eobjet trouvé\u003c\/em\u003e like a vacuum cleaner or a clock or a bale of hay—meshing conflicting modes of thinking produces a collage of thought through the body, through the material, and through slippages of language. Following no order, this haptic writing is a riddle that describes the effort to articulate an environment at the edge of its own forgetting, trying to place oneself amidst the sentimental violence of uncertain times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599424307436,"sku":"9781772011975","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a723295bbe9ce0a4bf00bc36aa872732.jpg?v=1778023225","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-eyelash-and-the-monochrome-by-tiziana-la-melia-9781772011975","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}