FOOD LOVERS
Food Lovers consists of five pages of the Penguin Modern book Food, a publication comprising a section of Gertrude Stein’s larger text Tender Buttons. Excerpts of the text have been edited into a new voice (or voices), in order to further explore the experimentation in Stein’s writing, while examining an expansive form of editing.
New words have been stitched in place over Stein’s text using human hair. These new versions refer to love, hate and the extremes of romantic relationships.
Food Lovers was commissioned by Imprints of the New Modernist Editing, a collective of academics from University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art. It was exhibited as part of the exhibition Imprints: Art Editing Modernism at Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall in 2021.
2020, book leaves, human hair, 5 leaves - 16cm x 11cm each (images show 2 of 5 leaves)