....even the birds were on fire...

Artist's booklet; letter press in limited edition, silk and tarlatan cover bound with grommets and wood cut title page. This artist's book incorporates poetry fragments and personal reactions alongside a minute-to-minute time line of the events surrounding September 11th, 2001.The beauty and delicacy of the artist's book, printed in subtle green and beige tones, is an emotive and intensely personal response incorporating lines of poetry from a number of adults and children at Battery Park in New York shortly after the events of September 11th 2001. The poetic responses, ranging from grief, anger, fear and bewilderment present an immediate and evocative artistic response to this event, which continues to have global significance and impact and was a forerunner for Australia's involvement in the current 'international war against terrorism'. Marshall Weber (b.1960) grew up in the United States during the Vietnam War and has maintained a lifelong interest in war and its societal and environmental impact. His work is influenced, both aesthetically and politically by a diverse range of historical and contemporary artists and writers including Goya, Hannah Hoch, Bertold Brecht and Joseph Beuys. In February 2006 he was a keynote speaker in Australia at the Third International Artists Book Forum and more recently created a series of art works exploring the 'ethics of military culture by re-assembling [the] texts and aesthetics of national war memorials and monuments using collage and frottage'.