Zipper: A Suite by Terry Ann Carter, a fabric bookwork by Lise Melhorn-Boe
Channel: Queen's University Library
Date: 05/05/2022

This bookwork is featured in the exhibition, Textus-Texts-Textiles: fabric bookworks by Lise Melhorn-Boe, at W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queen’s University Library, 6 May – 9 September 2022. 

Zipper, also inspired by a Crozier poem of the same name, was the second creation in the series, and it would ultimately be the impetus for Zipper: A Suite with a poem by Terry Ann Carter. Melhorn-Boe and Carter met at Minotaur, a downtown Kingston games, gifts, and crafts store where Lise worked for several years. When they realized that both were members of CBBAG (Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild), Melhorn-Boe and Carter exchanged website URLs. The next day, Carter spent time in Melhorn-Boe’s living room looking at books and ultimately buying a copy of Zipper. Inspired by reading Zipper in Lise’s living room, with a painting by Sharon Thompson on the wall, Terry Ann composed "Zipper: A Suite", the physical realization of which would become the third bookwork in this series. Zipper: A Suite, is the sole instance in which Carter’s poem has been published to-date.  

Video by Brendan Edwards and Ella Heiss; edited by Ella Heiss, 2022.