{"product_id":"cecilia-vicuna-about-to-happen","title":"Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen - Artist Book on Environmental Art","description":"\u003ch2\u003eCecilia Vicuña: About to Happen - Artist Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña's artist's book on the politics of the sea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning and ending at the edge of the ocean at the sacred mouth of the Aconcagua River, \u003ci\u003eAbout to Happen\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a lament as well as love letter to the sea. In this artist's book, Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña weaves personal and ancestral memory while summoning the collective power to confront the economic disparities and environmental crises of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePrecarios and Basuritas: Assemblage Art from Ocean Detritus\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollecting the detritus that washes up on shore, Vicuña assembles out of the refuse tiny \u003ci\u003eprecarios\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ebasuritas\u003c\/i\u003e--little sculptures held together with nothing more than string and wire, which she sometimes makes as offerings to be reclaimed by the sea. These ephemeral assemblages transform discarded materials into powerful statements about environmental degradation and renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eDecades-Long Practice at the Intersection of Art Forms\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout to Happen\u003c\/i\u003e traces a decades-long practice that has refused categorical distinctions and thrived within the confluences of conceptual art, land art, feminist art, performance and poetry. Vicuña's nuanced visual poetics--operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile--transforms the discarded into the elemental, paying acute attention to the displaced, the marginalized and the forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Poetry and Environmental Activism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis artist's book documents Vicuña's unique approach to addressing 21st-century environmental crises through art. Her work combines personal narrative with broader ecological concerns, creating a meditation on humanity's relationship with the ocean. The book serves as both documentation of her sculptural practice and a standalone work of visual poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePublished by Siglio Press\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition continues Siglio Press's commitment to publishing innovative artist's books that blur boundaries between visual art and literature. The book preserves Vicuña's interdisciplinary approach, presenting her work in a format that honors both its conceptual depth and material presence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siglio Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493239066898,"sku":"9781938221231","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a17886ca-b218-4d9f-b5e6-f01327581228.jpg?v=1730639673","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cecilia-vicuna-about-to-happen","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}