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An artist’s book about the elements of the periodic table and our inseparability from everything, free of scientific jargon and the expert lens. Published by Fifth Avenue Press. Coming out July 2019!
“Gorgeous, thought provoking, practical, mystical” – J. Margo “The Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere helps humanize science, at a deep level, and at a really important time” – K. Berger “Hannah Burr has mapped out, in color and language, the appearance of the elements in the mundane stuff of our lives. The effect is both scientifically precise and spiritually generous; people of any religious persuasion (or none) should enjoy this study of interconnectedness.“ – L. Thomas This book is extensive register of objects in which each element can be found, and a playful, accessible introduction to the self in all things. Each of us, our stuff, our people, places and things, are born in stars, burning, exploding, and colliding. So far, this has been called science and has been shared with us in expert jargon as if we were all going to be chemists one day. Artist Hannah Burr has written and designed an artists book for everyone to have access to and a direct experience of the chemical elements. |
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Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] |
Help me [ ], do the thing. |
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An artist's book of blunt prayers to nothing-in-particular. Burr uses these prayers to relax and enjoy seismic shifts in her life. They’ve helped her remember, as she forgets repeatedly, that there are larger forces at work, gravity for example, of which she is a part. These prayers help her accept and tap into whatever that is.
Arrived May 2013. |
Burr’s Second Book expands audiences from the first, bridging generation, belief, gender, religion. Prized by artists, designers, philosophers, kids, teens, seekers, secularists, and color savorers.
Cover design by ICA Boston’s Creative Director, L.Simon Hayes. Focus on creative boldness through wordless visual petitions Arrived June 2016. |
P R A I S E :
Very sweet, very open, very alive, honest, real. Thank you for holding space for expression of human experience in relation to ^*)(“”” |
“I go through periods of carrying Whatever Works around in my jacket pocket as if it were an illuminated manuscript and |
"I love the second one as much as the first!" |
"A book about reframing, asking for help, remembering, and letting go." |
"I've been turning to your books a lot lately for words of whatever I need at that moment. So grateful they are in the world." |
"Every prayer is completely appropriate for me right now. Honestly that makes me laugh and feel a little less alone and lost." |
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MUSEUM SHOPS CARRYING ONE OR BOTH TITLES :
ICA Boston MA MOMA PS1 NY CAC Cincinnati OH Peabody Essex Museum MA Portland Museum ME Holter Museum MO Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA MOMA Manhattan NY SFMOMA CA Carnegie/Warhol Museum OA Hirshhorn Museum DC Portland Art museum, OR LA County Museum of Art LACMA CA Museum of Contemporary Art LA CA Museum of Contemp San Diego CA Wexner Center for the Arts, OH Des Moines Art Center IA Columbus Museum of Art OH Albright Knox NY Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Wadsworth Athaneaum Museum of Art, Hartford CT Nelson Atkins Museum KC MO Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art AZ Crystal Bridges Museum of Contemp art, Bentonville AR UC Berkely Berkeley Art Museum CA Norton Simon Museum of Art Pasadena CA |
San Diego Museum of Art CA New Britain Museum of Am art CT Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art MD Orlando Museum of FL Rollins College Cornell Fine Arts Museum FL Bowdoin College Museum of Art Provincetown Art Association and Museum MA Worcester Art Museum MA Broad Art Museum, Michigan State U MI Grand Rapids Art Museum MI Minn Center for Book Arts MN Saint Louis Art Museum MO Nevada MOA NV Brooklyn Museum NY New Temporary Contemporary PA Mattress Factory PA Frist Center for the Visual Arts TN CAM Houston TX Menil Collection TX San Antonio Museum of Art TX Madison Museum of WI Whinings Gallery ME 555 Gallery MA Somes Sound Gallery ME Lacoste Gallery MA Esalen Institute CA Gardner Museum MA High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA |