Title Displaced on the Fault Lines
Artist / Creator Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Press Name EVE Press
Artist's Nationality United States
Place of Publication Bellingham, WA
Publication Date 2014
Process / Technique Inkjet
Structure / Binding Soft cover binding with belly band. Diagonal page folds, coptic sewing
Medium / Materials Vintage and antique photographs massaged in Photoshop using the Diffuse Glow filter
Paper Stock French Paper Dur-O-Tone Steel Gray 70# text and 100# cover; Construction Paver Red 70# text
Number of Pages 52 pages
Dimensions (WxHxD) 13.38 x 6.25 x 1 inches.
Edition Size Edition of 50
Signed & Numbered Yes

Displaced on the Fault Lines by Elsi Vassdal Ellis

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Displaced on the Fault Lines is the beginning of a series exploring questions of identity related to physical and metaphysical place and displacement, mythology, dehumanization, war and/or genocide. This textually dense book is the first of two volumes. The first volume begins with the internal displacement of my mother and her family in Norway and their experiences during World War II. That then connects to the Holocaust through Nazi concentration camps (her cousin spent three years in Dachau). Questions raised in the Jewish chapter explore collective as well as individual identities. From the Holocaust, the narrative moves to the plight of ethnic Germans at the end of the Second World War, their expulsion from Central and Eastern European communities due to the post-war redefining of borders as well as "pay-back." It moves forward to Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda with connections to the issues of identity, mythology and genocide.

Artist Bio

Elsi Vassdal Ellis creates books in Paradise: a well equipped studio in the Pacific Northwest. Since 1983 she has produced 117 editions (offset, letterpress, digital, stenciled, punched and cloth) as EVE Press as well 115 one-of-a-kinds. She exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work is permanently housed in many public collections including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York City Public Library, Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Grabhorn Collection in the San Francisco Public Library, and Arts of the Book Collection in the Yale University Library. Western Washington University has been her professional home since 1977 where she holds the rank of full professor. She teaches digital pre-press, offset and letterpress printing, graphic design history, and book arts. She has also taught Honors seminar courses combining book history topics with the making of historical models.