ISSUE 59 artist book
Designed and hand-bound by guest editor Frances Woodley. 19 artists made 20 pages: each artist gets a copy of the finished book, with the last going to Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. For all 20 of my pages see artwork
Frances’s theme was the prefix ‘Re-’ when used in front of a verb.
‘Re-’ is derived from a Latin prefix, a root word meaning:
“back, back from, back to the original place;” also
‘again, anew, once more,’ also conveying the notion of “undoing” or “backward,” . . .
‘’The many meanings in the notion of “back” give ‘re-’ its broad sense-range: “a turning-back; opposition; restoration to a former state; “transition to an opposite state.”
From the extended sense in “again,” ‘re-’ becomes “repetition of an action,” and in this sense it is extremely common as a formative element in English, applicable to any verb.
(Online Etymology Dictionary https://www.etymonline.com>word>re-
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