Double Moon

Constructions & Conversations Margo Klass & Frank Soos

Publication Year: 2009

For thirty years, Margo Klass has created hand-crafted book forms. In the last decade she's turned her skills to making elegant and profound sculptures. She constructs box forms, icons, and altarpieces, and covers them in cloth or fine paper. Some have windows or skylights so shadow and light can collaborate. Then she gleans from the wide world found objects that she places in gorgeous juxtaposition. From this process come altarpieces and icons, tiny rooms and vast expanses that draw us into their worlds. Frank Soos spends time in each of these created spaces, and responds in miniature essays, pieces of brief prose no longer than a paragraph. The interplay between words and objects is startling, playful, thought-provoking, and emotionally complex. Reflection and refraction—we take in both words and images, and then our imaginations continue the transformations.

Published by: Red Hen Press

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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

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pp. ix-xii

Preface

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pp. xiii-xvi

My psychologist pal Mike asked me that as he began to teach me to meditate away high blood pressure with the help of a thermometer purchased from a car parts store. It never occurred to me that in some unexplored way a quiet mind was a desirable thing to have. ...

Boxes, small worlds of wonder made from paper, board, and everyday objects transformed to talismans. And words, just as tautly crafted, just as constrained in scale and expansive in allusion, calling into form companion spheres of memory and experience that intersect with the visual realms they adjoin. ...

List of Works

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pp. 64-65

Acknowledgments

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pp. 66-

We would like to thank our countless friends, colleagues, and family members for their encouragement and support of our work and would like to extend very special thanks to the following: Kes Woodward, Dickson Carroll, and Jack Boul for Margo’s artistic support; Kes Woodward, Peggy Shumaker, and Janis Lull for Frank’s. ...

Grace

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pp. 67-

E-ISBN-13: 9781597093767
Print-ISBN-13: 9781597091411
Print-ISBN-10: 1597091413

Page Count: 80
Publication Year: 2009

Edition: First

Double Moon

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Contents

Preface

Section 1. Narratives

Something Not at All Myself

I Have Two

Rube

Jacob’s Ladder

Rock Paper Scissors III

Apparently Never

Permanent Press

Learning to Love in a Language We Do Not Understand

Icon

Warrior

Section 2. Maine

I Dreamed of Ships

Double Moon

Three

Breaking Forth

Red Herring

Staying Still

Crowley Island Fog

Flying Red Point

Celestial Navigation

Section 3. Japan

Sugimoto I

Gate Way

Teahouse

Balancing Act

Window Over the Couch

Tatami Room II

Site Line

Pavilion

Section 4. Altarpieces

Resurrection

Commerce 123

Reliquary of St. Sid: Patron Saint of Surfeit

Sanctum Sanctorum

Temple

Campanile II

Spirit

Inbound

Section 5. Alaska

Unknown Place

Indian River Run

Snow Country

Stick Eater

January Light

Early Snow

Afterword

List of Works

Acknowledgments

Grace

Research Areas

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