Tuesday 4 October 2016

Process.

Process.  Collaborative artists book. Edition of 6 unique books. Mediums include Inkjet prints, lazar prints, painting, drawing, sewing.
 
A collaboration between 3 American artists – Phillip Peterson, RCBz, Warren Smith and 3 South Africans Jeanette Gilks, Lesley Magwood Fraser and myself.  Process was intended as an investigation into each artist’s thoughts on the concept of process in their particular genre of work. These multiplicities of thoughts were distilled into a single sentence which provided the text of the book:
Phillip Peterson – Process, the successive steps necessary to produce.
RCBz – Process, for me, is the imposition of order on chaotic anxiety which has neither rhyme not reason – only urgency.
Warren Smith – The process, as shown here, are inkjet prints of digital manifestations of penciled lines.
Jeanette Gilks – The seamless process of the world we see utterly escapes the meanings attached to the words.
Lesley Magwood Fraser – Process is a procession.

Cheryl Penn – Process is all that is static and all that pulsates between a beginning and an ending.


Saturday 1 October 2016

Stains. PC (tictac) (Germany)/Cheryl Penn (South Africa)

STAINS (documented Book 37).
1 of 2 unique books dated November 2011. 
Colophon:  Cheryl Penn:  Mixed media on 200grm Fabriano paper, including thinners prints, text, photographs, painting.  Mediums include ink, oil paint, shellac, thread.
Ptrzia (tictac):  Mixed media on 200 grm Fabriano paper, including inkjet transfer prints, metal, plastic film, packing paper, text.  Mediums include ink, acrylic paint, enamel, pencil.

I was SO pleased when TICTAC – a conceptual artist in Germany agreed to collaborate on a book with me. I sent her two books, each hand done. I left a spread in between each of my pages and tictac completed them.  She also completed the book, adding the colophon and designing the 'look' of the book. The Perspex binding was her idea – with a little help from a Plexi-Man.  Hence, the book has a beautiful perspex cover and spine.   It’s a while since I took this book out, but its still a thing of beauty.