TY - CHAP
T1 - From Cut-out Bambi
AU - Harris, Caroline
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - Cut-out Bambi: Caroline Harris 2020A6 landscape format bookwork, limited edition of up to 20 (made on demand)Five folded leaves (20 uncut pages), printed with poem text and video stills withdeer excised; bound into silver mirror film-covered cartridge paper with inkjetprinteddeer silhouette; linen thread stab-binding; inside covers with black-and-whiteclose-up detail of deer hide.Cut-out Bambi brings together two manifestations of cuteness: a “translation” ofscenes from the Disney film Bambi, constructed from notes I took while watchingthe film for the first time, and screen shots from YouTube videos of deer andfawns in urban or suburban locations. I am interested in exploring the collisionbetween “cute” images of deer in mass media and the erasure of deer by humans,not only through hunting, but also planned, conservation-driven culling andrandom “drive-by” killing by vehicles. It may sound strange, but when I wascutting out the deer from the printed images with a scalpel, it did feel like anact of violence. (Interestingly, readers have “awwwed” over the cut-out shapes asthey might over an actual deer image – in particular with the fawn in the bathtub.)Cut-out Bambi also engages with ideas about anthropocentrism and DonnaHaraway’s concept of the “animal mirror”, and how it might be possible todecentre, disrupt and destabilise the human gaze and its reflection. The Bambi:Marginalised poems are taken from the peripheral text of Cut-out Bambi.
AB - Cut-out Bambi: Caroline Harris 2020A6 landscape format bookwork, limited edition of up to 20 (made on demand)Five folded leaves (20 uncut pages), printed with poem text and video stills withdeer excised; bound into silver mirror film-covered cartridge paper with inkjetprinteddeer silhouette; linen thread stab-binding; inside covers with black-and-whiteclose-up detail of deer hide.Cut-out Bambi brings together two manifestations of cuteness: a “translation” ofscenes from the Disney film Bambi, constructed from notes I took while watchingthe film for the first time, and screen shots from YouTube videos of deer andfawns in urban or suburban locations. I am interested in exploring the collisionbetween “cute” images of deer in mass media and the erasure of deer by humans,not only through hunting, but also planned, conservation-driven culling andrandom “drive-by” killing by vehicles. It may sound strange, but when I wascutting out the deer from the printed images with a scalpel, it did feel like anact of violence. (Interestingly, readers have “awwwed” over the cut-out shapes asthey might over an actual deer image – in particular with the fawn in the bathtub.)Cut-out Bambi also engages with ideas about anthropocentrism and DonnaHaraway’s concept of the “animal mirror”, and how it might be possible todecentre, disrupt and destabilise the human gaze and its reflection. The Bambi:Marginalised poems are taken from the peripheral text of Cut-out Bambi.
M3 - Chapter
SP - 76
EP - 84
BT - Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology
PB - Crested Tit Collective
CY - UK
ER -