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E-MAIL|LINK|COMMENTS (0) Posted by Teresa Hanafin, Boston.com Staff January 27, 2009 04:39 PM

By Cate McQuaid
Globe Correspondent

The photographer Olivia Parker's mystical confabulations at Robert Klein Gallery begin with old texts: an Ethiopian book of curses, a child's manuscript, and tribal books from Southeast Asia, among others. Working with a digital camera and further manipulating her images in Photoshop, Parker imbues these texts with light; they glimmer.

"Diagram Master's Book" features an accordion-fold book; the inside cover sports a grid of pips and Xs, and we glimpse hints of more grids and glyphs within, at the edges of pages. Where the book opens, light coalesces and seems to seep from the pages.

The photographs will resonate with anyone who has ever been lost in the pages of a good book. There's something alchemical about reading, or making sense of any kind of symbol, and Parker captures that magic.

Olivia Parker: "Diagram Master's Book"
Through Feb. 21
Robert Klein Gallery, 38 Newbury St., Boston
617-267-7997

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