Special Collections has copy number 8/26, signed and dated by the artist Tia Blassingame. IaU Cover title. Date of publication in pencil on colophon. Place of publication from Booklyn (Artists Alliance) website, viewed August 7 2018. http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2115 Wrappers included in pagination. "Stripping the maritime alphabet of its primary colors except blue and replacing them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water and maritime trade as well as the need for an alternate means of communication in time of emergency and duress. How do you send a warning call that hatred comes constantly in waves? M/W serves as a method of memorializing the slain and wronged, and of teaching our children and ourselves to be vigilant and wary in hostile terrain, where your skin color makes you an easy target. The names of victims of police brutality, unsolved murders, violence motivated by homophobia and transphobia with missing individuals like Phoenix Coldon fill this edition. John Robinson represents the victims whose murders go unsolved and seemingly forgotten for decades. For too many, justice remains distant. M/W 2 consists of numerical and repeater, or substitute, flags that compliment the alternative alphabetic flags of the abecedarian M/W 1. The repeaters make character duplication possible. In this case, they illustrate patterns of pain, grief, humiliation. Conceived of in Newport, Rhode Island and completed in New Haven, Connecticut, M/W 2 was digitally printed in Josefin Sans typeface. This book is copy [blank] in an edition of twenty-six copies."--Colophon.
Contents:
Miriam Carey (Zero) -- Marco McMillian (One) -- Kerrice Lewis (Two) -- Amia Tyrae (Three) -- Natasha McKenna (Four) -- Freddie Gray (Five) -- Lamar Smith (Seven [that is, Six]) -- Jessica Williams (Seven) -- Kendrick Johnson (Eight) -- Korryn Gaines (Nine) -- Phoenix Coldon (1st Repeater) -- John Robinson (2nd Repeater) -- Charleena Lyles (3rd Repeater) -- Mario Woods (4th Repeater).
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1047961701
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.