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Orlova Artist's Book by Rachel Simmons

$425.00

This piece was selected for our 2026 Fore Edge Fair online artist book sale. If you're interested in keeping up with acquisition opportunities through our Fore Edge initiative, sign up for the Fore Edge newsletter here.

If placing an online order is not possible for your organization, please send a purchase order to aschiferl@mnbookarts.org and we will hold your items and follow up with an invoice. We request payment within 30 days of receipt. 

“This tunnel book is named after the MV Lyubov Orlova, a former Russian icebreaker—now a ghost ship—that took me safely to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2008 and again in 2009. I created the scene by making a collage of elements from multiple photographs taken at various times and locations. Like a colorized postcard, this abstraction of a real experience depicts passengers from the Orlova on a zodiac tour of an iceberg bay. In the foreground, one of my cabin mates, a Tasmanian prison guard on holiday, is taking photographs of the landscape. Towards the back of the scene, the Orlova waits patiently for her passengers to return for food, warmth and comfort. The hyper-saturated colors intentionally flatten the space even as the tunnel structure seeks to deepen it, reframing the polar landscape as a theatrical stage, and transforming my personal experience as an eco-tourist into a brightly packaged commodity.” - Rachel Simmons

Closed dimensions, 6” x 6.5” x 1”, open dimensions 5.75” x 16.5” x 14”

Limited edition artist’s book of 10, hard cover tunnel book with magnetic wrapper box. Digital printing and letterpress on paper and board with book cloth

*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.

This piece was selected for our 2026 Fore Edge Fair online artist book sale. If you're interested in keeping up with acquisition opportunities through our Fore Edge initiative, sign up for the Fore Edge newsletter here.

If placing an online order is not possible for your organization, please send a purchase order to aschiferl@mnbookarts.org and we will hold your items and follow up with an invoice. We request payment within 30 days of receipt. 

“This tunnel book is named after the MV Lyubov Orlova, a former Russian icebreaker—now a ghost ship—that took me safely to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2008 and again in 2009. I created the scene by making a collage of elements from multiple photographs taken at various times and locations. Like a colorized postcard, this abstraction of a real experience depicts passengers from the Orlova on a zodiac tour of an iceberg bay. In the foreground, one of my cabin mates, a Tasmanian prison guard on holiday, is taking photographs of the landscape. Towards the back of the scene, the Orlova waits patiently for her passengers to return for food, warmth and comfort. The hyper-saturated colors intentionally flatten the space even as the tunnel structure seeks to deepen it, reframing the polar landscape as a theatrical stage, and transforming my personal experience as an eco-tourist into a brightly packaged commodity.” - Rachel Simmons

Closed dimensions, 6” x 6.5” x 1”, open dimensions 5.75” x 16.5” x 14”

Limited edition artist’s book of 10, hard cover tunnel book with magnetic wrapper box. Digital printing and letterpress on paper and board with book cloth

*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.

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Rachel Simmons is an American artist and educator based in Orlando, Florida who makes artist’s books, zines and prints. In her creative practice, she explores environmental and social activism, science, philosophy and memory. Since 2000, she has been teaching book arts and printmaking at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and is an active member of CBAA The Association for Book Art Education. Rachel's artist’s books can be found in institutional collections & archives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Scripps College, Harvard University, The Newberry, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Baylor University, Yale University, The Berkeley Environmental Design Library, The University of Miami and many others.
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