Title: Shadows of loss
Description: This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

"In learning about the killings on Al Mutanabbi Street in 2007, it became my desire to honour those who lost their lives. They kept appearing like ghosts before my eyes, like shadows. I wanted their names to be put on paper as an eternal reminder that they were here, and that they had mattered. That they were not forgotten. Their lives and their names opened my heart to a different culture, for which I am grateful ... There are twenty-eight shadow people in these pages, one for each killed. Their names appear on the back of each page. The last page has a reddish background to remind us of the more than a hundred wounded"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

Kristine Bouyoucos was born and brought up in Norway, where she graduated from Gymnasium before going to the U.S. She later got a B.S. degree from Empire State College, followed by printmaking courses at Rochester Institute of Technology at the School of the Arts. In addition to numerous juried exhibits throughout the U.S., her work has been shown in Lima, Peru and Melbourne, Australia. Solo Exhibits include Arts and Cultural Council in Rochester, NY, 2008 and Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, 2001. Travelling exhibition with the NY Society for Etchers, 2008: Loyola College, Chicago, Illinois; The Paramount Center of the Arts, Peekskills, NY; The National Arts Club, NYC. She lives and works in Rochester, NY. Kristine's studio contains every tool for cutting edge printmaking and for the creation of artists' books. Her work was recently purchased for the permanent collection of the Memorial Art Museum in Rochester, NY.
Subjects: Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, Terrorism in art, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Visual literature, Specimens, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, New York (State), Rochester
People: Kristine T. Bouyoucos
Time periods: 21st century