Silverberg, Robbin Ami: Henri Bergson, Hans Christian Anderson, Matsui Basho, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Janet Flanner, Franz Kafka, Etgar Keret, Alan Lightman, George RR Martin, István Örkény, Plutarch, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz, and Wallace Stevens – La durée réelle: make this cut first Reference to Henri Bergson’s concept of time (la durée) as both subjective and personal that time is lived and experienced. With this in mind, I chose to explore time through a year of food preparation, using my kitchen cutting boards as plates that make abstract mark-making imagery. Four sets of three plates each are divided into the seasons: Spring with fish cutting in chartreuse green, Summer with meat on crimson, Autumn with cheese, a yellow print on violet paper and winter with fruit/vegetable cutting a white print on rich blue. Quotes from literature present each season (on watermarked paper meant to suggest a calendar), and further quotations amplify the process of each food preparation.From this unusual starting point I offer other forms of knife use that could be used to define or ‘feel' time, whether paper cuts, self-cutting, or scarification, etc. and these texts offer objective, personal, or poetic information in layouts that are suggestive of the expressiveness of the cutting board prints themselves. A range of fonts and sizes were utilized, suggestive of the various knives & times those cuts were made. en., drypoint printed from cutting boards, pulp, watermarks, hardcover in box, 15.2 x 9 inch, Ed. of 12, num., sign., New York, 2024/25, Dobbin Books Request of availability backnext