Blue Book
Blue Book (2015)
Hand made booklets: cyanotype print on fine art paper; digital text print on habotai silk. Blue yarn.
14,8 x 21 cm
Edition of ten
The collective map of mourning that took shape throughout the performance installation Mapping Mourning has been photographed and transformed into drawings together with architect Laida Aguirre. The drawings are then used in order to produce cyanotypes, a photographic printing process that generated the earliest kinds of blueprints in the 1700′s . With chemicals, sunlight and water, maps of white trails in deep cyan blue landscapes unravels.
Blue Book is an edition of ten hand-made booklets. Every other page is a cut-up piece of a cyanotype map, layered with a page of text printed on habotai silk. The booklets two chapters, "Blue" and "Book", guides the reader through the many layers of meanings the words carry.
Blue Book is part of the artistic research project Affective Breaks, a series of overlapping works generated by Wildow in 2012 - 2015.
Hand made booklets: cyanotype print on fine art paper; digital text print on habotai silk. Blue yarn.
14,8 x 21 cm
Edition of ten
The collective map of mourning that took shape throughout the performance installation Mapping Mourning has been photographed and transformed into drawings together with architect Laida Aguirre. The drawings are then used in order to produce cyanotypes, a photographic printing process that generated the earliest kinds of blueprints in the 1700′s . With chemicals, sunlight and water, maps of white trails in deep cyan blue landscapes unravels.
Blue Book is an edition of ten hand-made booklets. Every other page is a cut-up piece of a cyanotype map, layered with a page of text printed on habotai silk. The booklets two chapters, "Blue" and "Book", guides the reader through the many layers of meanings the words carry.
Blue Book is part of the artistic research project Affective Breaks, a series of overlapping works generated by Wildow in 2012 - 2015.