My Struggle
Should you judge a book by its cover?
This book, Mein Kampf, the original English translation, published in 1938 and originally written by Adolf Hitler in 1929, gives the reader a full idea of the thinking behind the man and the dictator.
Looking beyond the pages written by Hitler, Katrina has created a piece of work
which looks at the issue of the millions of victims from the
Holocaust as a direct result of Hitler: his ideals encompassing this
book.
Using numerical stamps as a metaphor for the millions who were
permanently marked by tattoo for death, the books pages are slowly
engulfed by the victims of the Hitler regime: leaving Hitler
‘without a voice’.
The stamped pages are a visual dialogue of the many mass graves found at sites all through Europe after the fall of the Nazi’s.
'My Struggle' has been exhibited at;
Staffordshire Open Art
Stafford
'Bibliomania'
John Holden Gallery
Manchester
This ‘altered book’, "My Struggle" looks at Adolf Hitler's "Mein
Kampf".
The pages and text have slowly been engulfed by numerical stamps: a metaphor for the millions of Holocaust victims.
A review of this work can be found here on the Artists Network