Artists' Books
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Creation Date
2014
Keywords
artists' books; stream channels; streams; suburban landscapes; suburbs; built environments (object groupings); Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Description
36 unnumbered pages (some folded) : color illustrations. Issued in an edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. Bound in a modified long-stitch format. Letterpress printed and screenprinted with hand-made paper covers. Binding structure: Codex. "Channel and Flow was published by the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.. The Kidney Press is Sarah McDermott. She made this book in the spring of 2014. The images are letterpress printed and screenprinted on Shikoku paper. The typeface is Avenir, letterpress printed from polymer plates. The cover is handmade paper from milkweed collected and retted at Ruocco Family Farm in Sandgate, VT, mixed with cotton and abaca."--Colophon. SUMMARY: "Channel and Flow documents an attempt to follow a stream on its path through a dense suburban neighborhood. It uses the structure of the book's page turns and foldouts to represent how the stream has been contained and fragmented by the built environment."--Women's Studio Workshop website, viewed on July 3, 2014. Library has copy no. 34.
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Press
Rosendale, NY : Women's Studio Workshop, 2014.
Rights
© Rosendale, NY : Women's Studio Workshop, 2014.
Materials / Techniques
letterpress printing; papermaking; codices; codex binding; Shikoku paper; screen printing; milkweed floss
Measurements
16 cm