Marilyn R. Rosenberg describes her beautiful and complex book "DOUBLE"
thus: "It is not really visual poetry, although there is some. It is not
asemic poetry, although there is some. It is for sure an artist's book,
with a narrative that can be seen/read in all directions. I worked to be
sure that standing on its side the images worked as well as in the
landscape orientation. Notations reference the environment and the
current changes in the weather (global warming- the fires and floods),
and Covid, and death and life." Rosenberg's DOUBLE is a unique artist's
book that vividly explores ideas about doubling, and does so in many
directions at once: horizontally and vertically; with elements repeated
in a set of twin artists books which are presented on opposing pages;
always with modifications/additions/subtractions, on the facing page.
The original set of twin books were hardbound in black covers, with 200
gram acid-free, 100% recycled, 140 lb. cold press paper; and the artist
worked back and forth on corresponding pairs of squares. Digitized
images from both books were further manipulated for this book. DOUBLE
has 60 color filled pages, consisting of 30 similar twin pairs of facing
pages. The book itself is doubled in a sense, in that the front cover is
doubled on the last page, and the back cover on the first page. DOUBLE
mirrors and closes itself, to create a complete self-reflective object,
a talisman of how we experience the reality, or what we think of as the
reality, of the world we live in. The book's gorgeous and sensuous
colors, drawing, painting, writing, and collage give intense life to
these concepts. - John M. Bennett
