Evidence for Trees

Evidence for Trees

Edition of 4 handmade Artists’ Books. Spine: The Authentic Massacre of the Innocent Image, painting # 115. Accordion bound, text, paint, photographs, digital prints, photographs by Casey Aub. This was a book filled with strange words, written at a strange time in my life. 

Do you ever feel like you’re being coloured in said Casey?

What do you mean?

Like when you turn the pages of books people are sometimes red, or yellow, or blue, it’s a scratchy feeling.

---No said I, but some days when I wake up I feel so small I can walk under a coffee table and other days I feel so tall I cant get through the door.

Oh.

Müller, Peter (Germany) Verlach Friedichrodaer Hefde

General Note:

As stated in my Blog on one of Peters books for An Encyclopedia of Everything, http://an-encyclopedia-of-everything.blogspot.com ,I don’t know much about Peter Müller, except to say that I think he is a prolific, generous artist who works in multiples with digitally altered photographs being his main interest.  Further conversation with him has revealed that his multiple edition books are up to edition of 15 and he recombines common articles of ‘unnoticed beauty’ in order to see their structure.  This act removes the ordinary, unnoticed products/byproducts of consumerism into the realm of art.  The ‘thing’ becomes an open-ended experiment and can be seen as a collection of data from a specific place which gives testimony to the context of a particular journey.

diffuse II

Unnumbered edition book of inkjet prints, digitally altered photographs 21cm x 9cm x 1cm, Glue bound, composite hard card cover (800grm?), 80gm paper.  The images are reflections, shadows, light rays - visual information which is rendered abstract by the manner in which it has been photographed/digitally manipulated.  The inkjet printed nature of the images also renders them unclear, adding to title context.

Give aways for the deceased

Unnumbered edition book of inkjet prints, digitally altered photographs 30cm x 9.5cm x .5cm, composite hard card cover (400grm?), 40 gram paper.  Cropped photographs which render abstractions in food and commercial goods/the mundane, photographed in Japan.   A play on ‘a dead giveaway’?

japonais

Unnumbered edition book of  36 inkjet prints, digitally altered photographs, including collage, art filters and overlays.  Glue bound, 21cm x 9cm x 1cm, hard  cover coated with paper made from dried leaves, cloth spine,  (800grm?) 80 gram paper.  japonais is French for Japanese - things pertaining to Japan, its people or its language.

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.