The Unauthorized Audubon PDF

<DIV>In an age of experts and individualism, metrics and competition, <I>The Unauthorized Audubon </I>is something of an anachronism.

In fact, its creators, printmaker Laura B. DeLind and poet Anita Skeen, never set out to produce a book at all when they began exchanging prints and poems, but something happened along the way.

As they began to appreciate at a deeper level the skill involved in each other’s work, they began to find meaning in small things—a pattern, a memory, a carefully chosen word.

In his essay “Plugging into Essential Sources,” Eric Booth introduces the concept of “response-ability.” He describes it as the capacity to connect with the artful work of another.

It represents both our need and our promise to respond in an open, eager, and multi-sensual way to a world of possibility.

Without this capacity we are crippled in our ability to imagine and to grow.

This book is all about response-ability as experienced by the two artists and the visitors to an exhibit of their work at the Michigan State University Museum.

This concept and activity animates the twenty-two bird-like spirits found herein, reminding us that there are other such spirits hovering expectantly just beyond the pages, simply waiting for the imagining.</DIV>