In the globalized, interconnected world, an artist’s book can relate intercultural experience by holding great complexity in a format that the reader encounters in a direct, tactile way. In the books featured here, artists use that intimate connection to help the reader feel the effects more deeply of an upbringing that spans two cultures, or a multilingual experience of one’s surroundings.
Miko Revereza
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[New York, NY]: Hardworking Goodlooking, 2018
In a simpler but equally effective format, Revereza presents this account of an undocumented Filipinx immigrant – referred to as ‘the chameleon’ – through poems, photos, and data about immigration detention centers in the US. Two loose color snapshots that are clipped to the book add to the reader’s sense of being intimately involved with the story.
UNC Library Catalog: https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb9724967