{"title":"LOS NOPALES Y LAS TUNAS\nAn artist book on landscape, memory, survival, and offering.","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLOS NOPALES Y LAS TUNAS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA limited edition artist book rooted in the landscape of the nopal and the tuna.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis work considers the cactus as more than an image. It is food, shelter, medicine, memory, landscape, and witness. The nopal carries its own contradictions: thorn and tenderness, endurance and abundance, protection and offering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLos Nopales y Las Tunas is an exploration of these relationships through handmade bookmaking, image, material, and poetic gesture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA book to hold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA landscape to enter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn offering to carry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition · Handmade artist book · Calle Soledad Presa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"los-nopales-y-las-tunas-limited-edition-handmade-artist-book","title":"Los Nopales y Las Tunas\nLimited Edition Handmade Artist Book | Book Art","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLos Nopales y Las Tunas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited Edition Handmade Artist Book | Artist Book | Book Art | Natural Pigment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLos Nopales y Las Tunas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a limited edition handmade artist book created through a period of listening, observing, and developing a relationship with the land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn late September, as summer began to disappear into the movement of seasonal cycles, I gathered tunas, the fruit of the nopal, and transformed their color into handmade ink.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI listened. I watched.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough drawing, poetry, natural pigment, and imprint, the pages became a way of remembering the land and tracing the invisible threads that connect our bodies to the places that sustain us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe nopal became a witness and a teacher: rooted in the earth, carrying fruit, enduring, giving, and renewing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work considers the body not as separate from the land, but as part of its veins and arteries. A relationship of interconnectivity. A relationship of giving and receiving.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRezos y rezos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA prayer for the ancestor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA prayer for death and renewal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA prayer for the spines of the prickly pear that rupture the skin of our palms and open us toward another language, beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach artist book contains original drawings, poetry, handmade marks, and impressions created in response to the land, the nopal, and the changing seasons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003elimited edition of 10 handmade artist books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, created as individual works of book art. 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