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.
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  • audio files
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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.
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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