Effigies: Drawings by Lawand, Poems by Pascale Petit (2013) Artist Book ISBN: 9783981910865

ISBN: 9783981910865

with examples from twenty-five masters of prose

giving voice to hitherto largely ignored sections of the population

Godofredo Pereira

ArtAsiaPacific Issue 120 (September/October 2020)

Effigies: Drawings by Lawand, Poems by Pascale Petit (2013) Artist Book ISBN: 9783981910865Effigies is a haunting collection of two bodies of work by Syrian artist Lawand and British poet Pascale Petit. Though the two had never met nor previously known anything about each other's work, Petit was invited to respond in poetry to a large series of new drawings made by the artist, Lawand in Beirut. Over a few weeks in the summer of 2013, Petit selected the drawings that moved or interested her most and proceeded to write her highly imaginative