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Well, not that new, but as we're getting to the end of the year and blogging time is tight, I thought I'd post images of another artist's book that I made in the last year: It's called 'My Earliest Memory of My Father.' It's 2" high and 5" wide when closed, with bookboards wrapped in teal fabric. When you open it up, you see two things: on the right, an MP3 player showing a short stop-motion animation on a continuous loop; on the left, an accordion fold print of images from the animation. The animation is called 'My Earliest Memory of My Father', and I made it in 2006 for an installation at Finestra in Chicago. Here is the stop-motion animation:   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader

Deborah Doering talking about a show of her own work at Finestra Art Space What's it like to be a working artist, and also to run your own gallery? I posed this and other questions to Chicago artist Deborah Adams Doering. In addition to having an impressive exhibition record, Deborah has run a highly-regarded gallery out of the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, for a few years. This is the first in a series of interviews with artists and gallery owners who reflect on what makes them tick. Philip : Tell us a little about yourself. You're an artist who runs a gallery, yes? Deborah : Yes, first and foremost I consider myself a visual artist. I create three-dimensional installations, based on my two-dimensional drawings, paintings and prints. In the past few years, I have used a "core language of form," which I also call "Code" as a point of departure for both 2D works and the installations. My installations evolved from having rente...