Title: Trace
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.

"Trace is an attempt to understand the far-reaching impact of books. The attack on al-Mutanabbi Street hurt those seeking knowledge, solace, or vision in books, and thus my subject became the reader. The images on the cover are created from digital scans of fingerprints lifted from discarded library books. I chose library books because they have passed through the hands of countless people over many years; the trace of a person's contact with the books is hidden from the naked eye, but exists nonetheless. I have sealed the pages of the library books, so they may no longer be read"--Artist's statement from the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

Lindsay McCulloch's work includes paintings, prints, installations, drawings, and artist books. McCulloch received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from Boston University. She has exhibited her work internationally in museums and galleries including Casa del Lector in Madrid, Spain; the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA; Bowery Gallery in New York City, NY; and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX. McCulloch holds various awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship for painting. Her work is featured in public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
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, Books and reading, Psychological aspects, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Washington (D.C.)
People: Lindsay McCulloch
Time periods: 21st century