How to Say ‘I Love You’ in Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet
Winner of the Birgit Skiöld Award at London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery 2013
‘In this beautiful publication Campbell magically manages to evoke the icy North through the warmth and power of the Greenlandic language. Exquisite pochoir prints sit alongside hand-printed type – a perfect marriage between image and text.’ — Emma Stibbon RA
‘As a printmaker and bookmaker, Campbell deftly deploys her artistry and design to create books that are not merely things of beauty, but which preserve and embody the languages, cultures, and wildlife of the Arctic regions. The change in size of this [MIEL] edition has a remarkable effect; though most of us imagine the Arctic as vast and panoramic, now here it is in our very hands: small, portable, vernacular. And, like the Kalaallisut language itself, it is vulnerable, beautiful, and agglomerative -- as a single word can mean a whole sentence, a single image encompasses the color and form of one of the Earth's most remote yet lovely landscapes.’— Arctic Book Review
Read an article by Corinne Purtill in China Dialogue (in both Chinese and English)
Read an account written by Nancy of the project’s development in Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association.
Read an extract from the introduction published by the Dark Mountain Project.
book details
First edition: Bird Editions, 2011; handprinted letterpress and pochoir on Somerset paper, limited to fifity signed and numbered copies.
Second and third editions: MIEL books, Ghent, 2014 and 2015; cotton rag in paper wrappers with a foiled band.
All editions are now sold out but copies of the letterpress edition are available in international special collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London; National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; Yale Center for British Art, USA; Wellesley College, USA; Jan Michalski Fondation, Switzerland; and Groenlandica Collection, the National Library of Greenland.
