This Friday’s featured artist is Macy Chadwick and her extraordinary books and prints!
Macy Chadwick, Pathways, 2010, Photo: Sibila Savage
From her website:
Within translucent pages, cut paper shapes create a neurological geography of veins and synapses as the text speaks of emotional pathways. Turning the pages echoes the experience of focusing a microscope layer by layer on a complex slide. On closer examination, once-familiar patterns of thought devolve into a dense, uncertain territory- an intimate relationship in flux.
Pathways is a limited edition artist’s book written and created by Macy Chadwick in 2010. Imagery is laser printed on translucent Kimodesk pages. Inside the layered pages, the text is letterpress printed from handset type on digitally-cut UV Ultra paper and hand coloring is added with pochoir. The codex structure is bound with machine stitching and is enclosed in an exquisite custom box with a glass lid and base.
Within translucent pages, cut paper shapes create a neurological geography of veins and synapses as the text speaks of emotional pathways. Turning the pages echoes the experience of focusing a microscope layer by layer on a complex slide. On closer examination, once-familiar patterns of thought devolve into a dense, uncertain territory- an intimate relationship in flux.
Pathways is a limited edition artist’s book written and created by Macy Chadwick in 2010. Imagery is laser printed on translucent Kimodesk pages. Inside the layered pages, the text is letterpress printed from handset type on digitally-cut UV Ultra paper and hand coloring is added with pochoir. The codex structure is bound with machine stitching and is enclosed in an exquisite custom box with a glass lid and base.
Macy Chadwick, The Topography of Home, 2009, Photo: Sibila Savage
From her website:
The Topography of Home is the artist’s attempted reconciliation of living in the present while longing for her remembered hometown. Letterpress printed maps convey a more emotional than geographical terrain; events and places are recorded and revisited, worried over and examined. Silk tissue apertures punctuate the pages offering the reader glimpses of previous and subsequent images. This sequential aspect of the book literally and metaphorically has the reader both seeing the past through the present and looking forward through history’s gauze.
Designed, written and printed by Macy Chadwick, The Topography of Home was letterpress printed with pressure prints and polymer plates on Mohawk Superfine and blue Butcher paper. Window images were hand-stenciled on silk tissue.
The Topography of Home is the artist’s attempted reconciliation of living in the present while longing for her remembered hometown. Letterpress printed maps convey a more emotional than geographical terrain; events and places are recorded and revisited, worried over and examined. Silk tissue apertures punctuate the pages offering the reader glimpses of previous and subsequent images. This sequential aspect of the book literally and metaphorically has the reader both seeing the past through the present and looking forward through history’s gauze.
Designed, written and printed by Macy Chadwick, The Topography of Home was letterpress printed with pressure prints and polymer plates on Mohawk Superfine and blue Butcher paper. Window images were hand-stenciled on silk tissue.
Macy Chadwick, Mapping the Unknown, 2008, Photo: Sibila Savage
I'm also very drawn to Macy Chadwick's prints from her Letterpress Broadsides series of work.
Macy Chadwick, Map: Migration, 2008, Photo: Sibila Savage
Be sure to visit Macy Chadwick's website at http://macychadwick.com to see all her wonderfully intricate art!
Have a great weekend!
Have a great weekend!
