Thanks, Julie!
The theme of "Connections"... it made me think back to some old zinc letterpress blocks from a book about Norwegian cross-stitch patterns from the late 1800's (don't ask me how I got the blocks, but I am glad to have them!)
I printed them on some thin pine veneer that I bought in Kyoto, Japan back in 2004 (it was sold in a restaurant supply store, intended to be used to wrap up/ deliver sushi rolls: imagine receiving sushi wrapped in wood, it's exquisitely beautiful!)
The connection then to the grommets and string is thus a bit of a non sequitur... I was just thinking about what the illustrations depicted, then trying to play off Julie's initial stippling on the cover of the book, playing with a bit more physical materiality/ tactility. What in the heck is that sculptural piece in the bottom of the box, which is lovely, made out of: is it plaster? paper pulp? I was stoked to see Gail's inclusion of some 3-D bits....
Keep it going, Rika!
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I printed them on some thin pine veneer that I bought in Kyoto, Japan back in 2004 (it was sold in a restaurant supply store, intended to be used to wrap up/ deliver sushi rolls: imagine receiving sushi wrapped in wood, it's exquisitely beautiful!)
The connection then to the grommets and string is thus a bit of a non sequitur... I was just thinking about what the illustrations depicted, then trying to play off Julie's initial stippling on the cover of the book, playing with a bit more physical materiality/ tactility. What in the heck is that sculptural piece in the bottom of the box, which is lovely, made out of: is it plaster? paper pulp? I was stoked to see Gail's inclusion of some 3-D bits....
Keep it going, Rika!
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