Secret Language

by Molly Barker

Secret Language is about the indestructible spirit that compels people to search out meaning and to give it a shape, even when their lives seem reduced to a tedious or desperate struggle for survival. In libraries and parking lots, memories and dreams, it shows people tunneling through the hard surface of daily reality to find unexpected layers of mystery and possibility.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1997

Reviews

[Kurt · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I'll admit to a bias, the author is a friend, the grace and charm of this little slip of a book remain unassailable. The art work is the main draw here. Each section reveals a different manner in which the world buffets and assails us and the art work creates imagery of emotional motion in response. The prose is clean and minimal allowing the images to speak. They act as modest guideposts. The images reveal the gaps between people, the gaps between emotions. The interior life of those portrayed take on a physical existance--laid bare before us. Give this book a few moments and it will move you.

[Michael Rudzki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exquisite. Deceptively simple.