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Creative Highlights -- The Interview Series

This series of interviews are created to shine a light on creative exploration, entrepreneurship, and empowerment and to bring a heightened awareness to the many ways in which we can incorporate creativity into our daily lives by featuring ordinary humans who are doing extraordinary things.
Each video episode is available to spectators for three weeks. After three weeks, you can upgrade to the participant level and receive:
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  • transcripts
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  • downloadable PDFs with instructions for various bookmaking, art and creativity activities
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Creative Highlights Episode 1: Lyall Harris [painter, book artist, writer]

Q&A with Lyall on the Blog -- check out the q&a we did back in January in preparation for this interview.
Links mentioned during the interview:
Lyall's Webite: www.lyallharris.com
www.thesighpress.com Online Literary Journal started by Lyall and Mundy Walsh
http://www.advancingwomenartists.org/about.php (current project for which Lyall did the translations about "forgotten" artist Lola Costa and a better known Elisabeth Chaplin, both expats, who lived and worked near Florence in the first half of the 20th century)
Book Lyall mentioned:
Hello
10 x 6 1/2 x 3/16”
edition varié of 8
2013
techniques: ink wash on paper, pamphlet stitch

materials: paper, thread, tape

Ink drawings are the backdrop for a poem about a charged encounter with an immigrant trinket street seller in Florence, Italy. The drawings and the fold-out form reference a map in a work about the complexities of human migration.
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Collaboration Lyall mentioned:

The Things That Ride Out Time
A collaborative book by
Patricia Silva & Lyall Harris
edition size 2, housed in a box
March 2014, Florence, Italy

“The things that ride out time” is a phrase from Charming Billy by Alice McDermott, elaborated beautifully in a description of an old glass juicer

8 3/8 x 5 15/16 x 1/4 in.
21.3 x 15.2 x .6 cm

Box: 8 1/2 x 6 x 3/8
21.5 x 15.5 x 1cm
14 pgs
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