Penny Richards
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Roll the Presses/ Words In His Wake
Linocut treads added to wheelchair tires. 2018
45” x 32” x 45”
$500 per tire
Website: www.pennamite.wordpress.com/
California, USA
Image by Penny Richards
Audio by Mari Weiss
Linocut treads added to wheelchair tires. 2018
45” x 32” x 45”
$500 per tire
Website: www.pennamite.wordpress.com/
California, USA
Image by Penny Richards
Audio by Mari Weiss
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
“An experiment with impressions and expressions.
In 2012, Jennifer Kennard of the blog Letterology made a post about “the latest fad in moveable type,” illustrated with a 19th century print of a tricycle rigged to print lettering as it rolls. She also mentioned the work of Nicholas Hanna, an artist in Beijing whose “tricycle calligraphy” involves a tricycle that prints Chinese characters with water. If you can make it with a bicycle, you can probably make it with a wheelchair, so… I started carving.
For the first wheel, I carved phrases: Rock and Roll, Let’s Roll, Merrily We Roll Along, This is How I Roll, Ramp it Up, and Where There’s a Wheel. For the second wheel, I carved the word for wheelchair in various languages: Wheelchair (English), Rostoel (Dutch), Kurumaisu (Japanese), Cadair olwyn (Welsh), Fautail roulant (French), Sedia a rotelle (Italian), Silla de ruedas (Spanish), and Chariot (just because).”
-Penny Richards
In 2012, Jennifer Kennard of the blog Letterology made a post about “the latest fad in moveable type,” illustrated with a 19th century print of a tricycle rigged to print lettering as it rolls. She also mentioned the work of Nicholas Hanna, an artist in Beijing whose “tricycle calligraphy” involves a tricycle that prints Chinese characters with water. If you can make it with a bicycle, you can probably make it with a wheelchair, so… I started carving.
For the first wheel, I carved phrases: Rock and Roll, Let’s Roll, Merrily We Roll Along, This is How I Roll, Ramp it Up, and Where There’s a Wheel. For the second wheel, I carved the word for wheelchair in various languages: Wheelchair (English), Rostoel (Dutch), Kurumaisu (Japanese), Cadair olwyn (Welsh), Fautail roulant (French), Sedia a rotelle (Italian), Silla de ruedas (Spanish), and Chariot (just because).”
-Penny Richards
BIO:
Penny L. Richards, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of History and the Center for Disability Studies at University at Buffalo. She was president of the Disability History Association from 2009 to 2015, served on the editorial board of "The Encyclopedia of American Disability History" (Facts on File 2009), and contributes scholarship to various publications, most recently Burch and Rembis, eds., "Disability Histories" (University of Illinois Press 2014) and Rembis, Nielsen, and Kudlick, eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Disability History" (Oxford University Press 2018). She crochets, edits Wikipedia, and plans adventures in Redondo Beach, California.
Penny L. Richards, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of History and the Center for Disability Studies at University at Buffalo. She was president of the Disability History Association from 2009 to 2015, served on the editorial board of "The Encyclopedia of American Disability History" (Facts on File 2009), and contributes scholarship to various publications, most recently Burch and Rembis, eds., "Disability Histories" (University of Illinois Press 2014) and Rembis, Nielsen, and Kudlick, eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Disability History" (Oxford University Press 2018). She crochets, edits Wikipedia, and plans adventures in Redondo Beach, California.
DESCRIPTION:
A wheelchair has letters cut from strips of linoleum that are attached to tread and leave imprints in soft surfaces. The right wheel prints out phrases: Rock and Roll, Merrily We Roll Along, This Is How I Roll, Ramp It Up, and Where There’s A Wheel. The left wheel prints out the word for wheelchair in various languages: English, Dutch, Japanese, Welsh, French, Italian, and Spanish.
-description by Teri Grossman
-description by Teri Grossman
Opulent Mobility by A. Laura Brody is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The Opulent Mobility license refers to the exhibit and its audio descriptions. Individual artworks are the property of the individual artists.