Lydia's porcelain
By: concept, images & words, Ewa Monika Zebrowski ; collaboration Jacques Fournier, Francine Savard
Contributors: Fournier, Jacques, 1950- contributor; Savard, Francine, 1954- contributor
Publisher: Ewa Monika Zebrowski
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Montréal, Québec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Personal belongings in art; Porcelain in art; Autobiographical memory in art; Time in art; Artistic Photography; Specimens; Artists' books
Description: "Last October [2012], my dear friend, Lydia invited me to celebrate Thanksgiving with her family in rural Pennsylvania ... It was an honour for me to be part of this annual gathering. A time to give thanks. We were going to be twelve for dinner. Lydia mentioned that she wanted to use paper plates rather than her limoges china. A practical decision. On Thanksgiving morning I awoke early. The house was silent. I walked through the empty rooms thinking about friendship, about family, about children on the brink of adulthood, her aging mother. I discovered the porcelain in the dining room cabinet, an exquisite wedding gift, glistening in its mysterious beauty. I began to consider how we spend the first half of our lives raising our children, working, creating a life, accumulating possessions--and the second half of our lives watching our children define their lives, while we try to simplify ours, and part with many of our precious, possessions"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on February 17, 2016.
Notes: Cover title.

Limited edition of twenty numbered copies.

Rare Book copy: No. 5.

"Printing PhotoSynthèse"--Colophon.

Single accordion-folded sheet attached to grey chip boards at either end. Title stamped on boards. Color photographs and text inkjet printed on one side of the accordion, with colophon appearing on verso of front board. Issued in a paper slipcase with small gilt design on front.