Initially Self Referent

“Initially Self Referent” is a book written by Madelin Coit, containing seventeen fictional textworks—a body of remarks made upon the life lived, shaped by color, form, sound, and context.

“Coit—unforgettably sharp, witty, quick—is incredibly adept with language. Indeed, if one part of her oeuvre can be categorized as poetic minimalism, the other can be described as linguistic conceptualism. Whether literary poems or short stories, spoken or engraved, her verbal compositions are no less aesthetically and emotionally charged than her abstract pictorial practice.” - Jennie Hirsh, from “Before and After Language: The Art of Madelin Coit”

2003, Edition of 125 artist books

The audio excerpts below are of the artist reading a selection of pieces from the book.