Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon
Juárez, Mexico, is known for violence. The femicides of the 1990s, and the cartel mayhem that followed, made it one of the world's most dangerous cities. Along with the violence came a new lexicon that traveled from person to person, across rivers and borders—wherever it was needed to explain the horrors taking place. From personal interviews, media accounts, and conversations on the street, Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs have collected the words and slang that make up the brutal language of Juárez, creating a glossary that serves as a linguistic portrait of the city and its violence. Organized alphabetically, the entries consist of Spanish and Spanglish, accompanied by short English definitions. Some also feature a longer narrative drawn from interviews—stories that put the terms in context and provide a personal counterpoint to media reports of the same events. Letters, and many of the entries, are supplemented with Briggs’s evocative illustrations, which are reminiscent of Hans Holbein’s famous Alphabet of Death. Together, the words, drawings, and descriptions in ABCedario de Juárez both document and interpret the everyday violence of this vital border city.
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Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez
What do you call a place where people are tortured and murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where police work for the drug cartels? Where the meanings of words such as "border" and "crime" and "justice" are emptying out into the streets and flowing down into the sewers? You call it Juárez or, better yet, Dreamland.
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The Room
Twelve chine collé woodcuts and three letterpress pages interleaved with Kitakata Japan paper housed in a linen clamshell box with constructed inner folder.
Out of the editions of 24, numbers 1-14 reserved for deluxe artist portfolio.
Each woodcut signed “Alice Leora Briggs”, Colophon signed “Alice Leora Briggs” and “Mark Strand.” Colophon bears Roman numeral unique number for the each of the 14 portfolios.
Prints in the portfolio:
Image size: 16 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.
Paper size: 21 x 24 in.The cloth covered portfolio box, inner “chemise” folder and letterpress pages were designed by Alice Leora Briggs and Kelly Leslie. Portfolio box and folder were constructed by Jace Graf of Cloverleaf Studios, Austin, Texas. The box measures 25 1/4” x 21 3/4” x 1 3/8”. Individual prints interleaved with Japan Kitakata paper.
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