My Daughter Terra
My Daughter Terra an anthology collaboratively produced by Nina Hanz, Betty Brunfaut, Bakhtawer Haider, Kristina Chan and João Villas. It brings together a wide range of international emerging artists, architects, designers and writers engaging with the language and mythologies of environmental responsibilities. Conceptualised in moments of great emergency, the anthology collects many different vantage points and individual perspectives — regional traumas, individual pasts, the most viral of destructions and what might come in the future. These works traverse several forms including photography, personal essays, art texts, plays, poetry, etchings, renderings and much more.
Limited hand bound first edition of 100.
It’s all in a name
The title, an evolution of how we personify the Earth, was chosen to question the dialogues and oppressive systems we have inherited that distance us from our environmental impacts and responsibilities. The linguistic shift from mother to child suggests our Earth must now be cared for, but also implies that our strength and power have outgrown traditional roles. My Daughter Terra is a rephrasing, yes, but it is also the truth — of how we must fill a new role, with its growing pains and all.
Practice what you preach
The theoretical values of this anthology also served as the guidelines for its planning and printing. My Daughter Terra is a conscious and low waste publication striving for more sustainable publication practices while also allowing for high-end production. One such way is through its cover. The book itself is coptic stitched, a medieval “spine-less” binding. The covers are also handprinted using recycled inks and papers from past projects, paper samples and off cuts to reduce production waste as well as allowing each copy of the first print-batch to be truly unique. Echoing our curiosity for the land, each contribution has been been given a custom design that either zooms in or out of the artistic landscapes captured in the works. Planned, produced and printed in London, this is a bespoke and handmade publication with a beautiful Screen printed Swiss Bound cover.
Contributions by
Ryan Al-Schamma, Deborah Ashfield, Finchittida Finch, Fiona Glen, Sam Hanner, James Ireland, Jasmin Jelley, Andrea Khôra, Yin Ying Kong, Dasha Loyko, Audrey Magniette, Olivia Powell, Marie Muller Priqueler, Alexandra Riesco, Morgane Van Dam, Harriet Welch, Sid White-Jones. Introduction by Nina Hanz.
Publishing Information
ISBN: 978-1-7396977-1-6
Size: A4
Cover: Recycled Fabric
Pages: 64
Binding: Swiss Bound
Publication Editor: Nina Hanz
Copy Editors: Yin Ying Kong, Jasmin Jelley, Fiona Glen, Lucy Holt
Designed by: Betty Brunfaut and Bakhtawer Haider of Plan B Studios
Printed by: Plaintiff Press
Nina Hanz
Writer - Critic - Poet
Editor at JAWS Journal
”I have written a lot about the human body; its movements and illness; the paradoxes of stillness; and the rapid acceleration of time (and people) passing. But for me, these subjects were always incomplete without a context, the spaces within which we find them, and places which ground them. To gain a deeper understanding, I began to look downwards— under.”