Extreme cut-and-paste job

30 August 2005

Five years in the making, the narrative created from snippets of text from women's magazines of the 1960s, it's Graham Rawle's Woman's World.

Over the five years of assemblage, Rawle, much admired at Dogmatika HQ for his Lost Consonants cartoons for the Guardian, estimates he has glued 40,000 text fragments, and blunted three pairs of scissors, to create Norma Fontaine, a provincial English transvestite whose feminine persona is based on women's magazines of the era.

His mammoth efforts are pulished by Atlantic Books on the 24th October.

Meantime, go have a look at Niff Actuals, online home of the Niff Institute, of which Graham is Director.