THE RAVELING

2019

Artist Book. Mixed Media: Cut book pages from
Haldor Laxness’ Independent People, shoe horns,
and Icelandic fish skins.

8.5 x 12 x 1 inches

Independent People, an epic novel by Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness, is considered among the foremost examples of social realism in Icelandic fiction in the 1930’s. It is an indictment of materialism, the cost of the self-reliant spirit to relationships, and capitalism itself.
Issues still relevant today, Brooke reconsiders her own role as an independent artist and her work with material objects in a capitalistic culture.