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Feldenkrais Research Journal • volume 3 (2007)

Article

Artist Statement:
Pages Turned, 2001, Etching/Relief print, 19.75" x 23.5"

Louise Kames
MFA, Professor of Art, Clarke College, Iowa

Abstract
Pages Turned recalls my family’s history with the prairie in the Midwest United States. Three generations
farmed the land, producing crops, dairy products and a deeply rooted network of relationships. In 1969
the family homestead and 6,500 acres of surrounding farmland was purchased to build Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, a federally funded site to study subatomic particle physics. In 1975 Fermi
Laboratory staff and volunteers began to restore 1,000 acres to native grasslands. Their hope is to
produce an ecosystem that closely resembles the prairie that my family settled a century earlier.

Printmaking is an appropriate art form to layer ideas and imagery related to the native prairie, the
cultivated land, the displacement of family, the opening of the earth’s surface to build an “atom smasher”
and a return to restored prairie. The print, Pages Turned, joins my family’s property deed, an image of the
corncrib, prairie plants, including the coneflower seedpod, with the physics formula for top quark.

Keywords
Feldenkrais, printmaking, art, prairie

Copyright ©: The copyright for this paper remains with the author(s).

Please cite: (First published in the) Feldenkrais Research Journal, volume 3; 2007.

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Artist Statement/Title Picture 
 
Louise Kames  
Pages Turned, 2001, Etching/Relief print, 19.75" x 23.5" 
 

Pages Turned recalls my family’s history with the prairie in 

the Midwest United States. Three generations farmed the land, 

producing crops, dairy products and a deeply rooted network of 

relationships. In 1969 the family homestead and 6,500 acres of 

surrounding farmland was purchased to build Fermi National 

Accelerator Laboratory, a federally funded site to study 

subatomic particle physics. In 1975 Fermi Laboratory staff and 

volunteers began to restore 1.000 acres to native grasslands. 

Their hope is to produce an ecosystem that closely resembles 

the prairie that my family settled a century earlier. 

 

Printmaking is an appropriate art form to layer ideas and 

imagery related to the native prairie, the cultivated land, 

the displacement of family, the opening of the earth’s surface 

to build an “atom smasher” and a return to restored prairie. 

The print, Pages Turned, joins my family’s property deed, an 

image of the corncrib, prairie plants, including the 

coneflower seedpod, with the physics formula for top quark.  

 

Louise Kames MFA 

Professor of Art 

Clarke College 

 
 

IFF Academy 
Feldenkrais Research Journal 3 (2007) 

® 2007 by the author 
ISSN 1817-4000