Ghost Bikes

Authors

Elizabeth Long, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

8-1-2021

Description

AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION - New England Chapter Purchase Prize | $375 Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection.

Keywords

artists' books, Baker & Whitehill, American Printing History Association - New England Chapter Purchase Prize, award

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2024

Major

Illustration

Faculty / Course

Not associated with a course, personal project.

Materials + Techniques

Letterpress printed with colored ink on Zerkall paper

Student Narrative

Made during a Summer 2021 fellowship at No Reply Press in Portland, Oregon. This limited edition book documents the sites of local memorials and “ghost bikes” (white-painted bikes erected at the sites of bicyclist fatalities). There are two illustrations for each site, paired with a street sign demarcating the location of each accident. The intention was to recognize the sites of tragedies that often go unproved or ignored. I tried to show the love and loss expressed in these small memorials. This was hand-printed using a traditional letterpress, as well as being hand-bound. The cover is handmade paste paper. The title is hand-embossed gilt.

Photo Credit

Hannah Nigro, PH 2023

Recommended Citation

Long, Elizabeth; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Ghost Bikes" (2021). 8th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2022. 22.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest8th2022/22