Beyond Maps and Atlases Edition:Signed For American Winter

For American Winter

A black banana

In response to the suffocating tension on the city's streets

and the shadows of industrial megaliths reach blindly across the dust

To aid their mission in reducing numbers

Beyond Maps and Atlases Edition:Signed For American WinterIn this new body of work, Beyond Maps and Atlases, Bertien van Manen turns to Ireland. Van Manen says, At first, working in Ireland I wasnt sure what I was looking for. My husband had died. I dispensed with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by a feeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning in a place of myths and legends. There was mystery and endlessness at the edge of a land beyond which is nothing but a vast