Hiroshima Hopes
and Dreams
1996

Artist’s book with seven separate signatures

Text on vellum, 90# hot press Arches paper, black kozo paper, Strathmore red pastel paper, Japanese stab binding, ink, computer-generated images, folded box.

Typeset in Quark Xpress on Macintosh computer.

Book signaures, 12x8.5x.25" each; Folded box, 12x8.75x2.5".

At right: detail

In her artist’s book Hiroshima Hopes and Dreams, Clarissa Sligh, an African-American artist, incorporates her longstanding use of photography with a mixture of computer- based image manipulation tools and traditional Japanese brush-and-ink and bookbinding work. The book is a rumination on the public and private dimensions of memory and immortality. The varied forms of resistance posed by the various media Sligh works with are integral to her process.