Mabel in Her Twenties
94 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1992
ISBN:9780932511447
Gertrude Stein, reimagined
Rosaire Appel’s Mabel in Her Twenties is a work of delicacy, whimsy, and pathos reminiscent of Gertrude Stein. Punctuated by odd, melancholy photographs of a Victorian interior, Mabel is the story of a peculiar love relationship that concludes in a place as frightening as it is familiar.
In Mabel in Her Twenties, we encounter a young woman moving through a universe of love, friendship, and familial ties. Relationships exist in unfettered flux. For Mabel, the past is as unknowable as the future. Her actions and reactions are impulsive and immediate. The future, for her, merely embodies the unresolved dreams and nightmares of the past, combined with the eccentricities of chance.
Rosaire Appel’s Mabel in Her Twenties is a work of delicacy, whimsy, and pathos reminiscent of Gertrude Stein. Punctuated by odd, melancholy photographs of a Victorian interior, Mabel is the story of a peculiar love relationship that concludes in a place as frightening as it is familiar.
In Mabel in Her Twenties, we encounter a young woman moving through a universe of love, friendship, and familial ties. Relationships exist in unfettered flux. For Mabel, the past is as unknowable as the future. Her actions and reactions are impulsive and immediate. The future, for her, merely embodies the unresolved dreams and nightmares of the past, combined with the eccentricities of chance.
Rosaire Appel is an artist living and working in New York. After studying art and painting for years, she took up writing. She was intrigued by the idea of applying the techniques of painting to fiction. She has had some short work published in small magazines and has shown her photographs in group shows in New York and in a one-person show on Long Island. Her work, situated at the crossroads of looking and reading, words and images, takes the form of digital prints, drawings, photographs, and books. The books, both limited-edition and commercially available, often feature abstract comics combined with asemic writing.
