Description

Between the Lines Broadside: COLD WORLD

Faride Mereb + Master Ramsey-El

The words are arranged in the shape of panoptic. Clockwise you see his text, and counterclockwise you see the explanation provided on the letter: a monologue or dialogue with himself. The shape on top and bottom are circular (stamp from the envelope received) and emulate an anatomical diagram of an eye: an object and its inverted image inside. 

Colophon: Designed by Faride Mereb, Layout assistance by Oriana Nuzzi. Center for Book Arts, “Between the Lines” reading series. October 2021. Printed Digital Using Halyard (Adobe Fonts). 100 copies.

8.5 in x 14in

Edition of 100

Faride Mereb is an award winning book designer, teacher, and researcher from Venezuela currently living in NYC. She is a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the founder of Ediciones Letra Muerta. Her work is mostly focused on archival research, literature and typography. She has worked with big publishers and small ones as well. She likes the second ones best. 

Master Ramsey-El, aka Tiffany Ann, is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but has lived in Florida for the past 15 years. Although his body is in a cage, his mind is free to wander, wonder and create. He is the published author of a poetry memoir, The Eye of the Storm, written while serving a life sentence in Federal prison for a crime he did not commit. He participates in Between the Lines, a series of collaborative art workshops by correspondence. His contributions will be exhibited in The Power of We, a large-scale public art exhibition, supported by We, Women Photo, that will travel across the U.S. to venues in Anchorage, Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans. He is a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, and participates in Between the Lines under the pseudonym Tiffany Ann, in honor of his sister who passed away in 2009.