Title: Hope lies in our hands
Description: "I created a happening in the garden shed, inviting close friends to a pop-up exhibition of recent bookworks, and giving each of them a brief description of our artists' books project for Iraq. Honoured to be included, friends' hands were photographed holding a book: images taken in black and white exemplify the gravity of the past, as well as the beauty of these hands in the present, and the hope we hold. Each person received a handmade bookmark to acknowledge their contribution and the resultant work, hope lies in our hands includes a bookmark, too"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website (viewed June 22, 2015).

Lilla's final piece of work for her MA in printmaking and artists' books was a 60-page website, a demanding and fulfilling challenge that facilitated her creative practice returning to a heart-centred focus.
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, Hope in art, Hand in art, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, England, Brighton
People: Lilla Duignan
Time periods: 21st century