She Feels Your Absence Deeply

She Feels Your Absence Deeply utilizes materials from artist Golnar Adili’s archive of letters, photos and printed matter once owned by her father. The collection spans from 1979, when Adili’s family migrated back to Iran from the US, and continues through 1981, when her father escaped Iran for fear of persecution due to his activism.

Inspired by children’s puzzle books, images are printed on six-sided cubes allowing the viewer to obscure, reveal, mix, and match the intimate artifacts from Adili’s collection. The blocks are housed inside a portfolio box that opens flat and carries the print of the airplane ticket used in the final leg of her father’s long journey from Iran. When the box is closed the airplane hugs the blocks, keeping the events inside until they unravel again to tell a visual story of how a family was affected by larger political shifts.

Out of print.

Images

Holdings

Claremont Colleges, Bucknell University, Indiana University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ringling School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Baylor University, University of Delaware, Vassar College, Yale University, Harvard University, University of California (Santa Barbara), Colby College, Ohio University, Mount Holyoke College, Bainbridge Island Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Pittsburgh, University of Colorado (Boulder), Bowdoin College, Rochester Institute of Rochester Institute of Technology, Temple University Libraries, Swarthmore College, University of Utah, Library of Congress, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, University of Arkansas, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Metadata

Title:

She Feels Your Absence Deeply

Other Contributors:

Foil Stamping by Biruta Auna

Date of publication:

2021

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

immigration, immigrants, Family, borders, politics

ISBN:

978-1-943039-27-2

Dimensions:

3.25" x 4.25" x 1.75"

Number in edition:

50

Paper:

Yatsuo, BFK, miscellaneous thin Japanese paper, inkjet tattoo paper for the blocks, Colorplan text weight

Printing method:

Inkjet, Lithography, Silkscreen, and Foil Stamping

Binding:

Hardcover folio, encasing a set of blocks

Structure:

Book Object

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts

Printer:

Golnar Adili, Aurora Brush, and Chris Petrone

Binder:

Golnar Adili