Cities & eyes

All Stitched Up (Exhibition) Tacoma, WA) (2018 :

Aurora, Colorado, Ravenpress, 2016

Artist Books

Image

1 artist book (2 parts in box)

illustrations

15 x 13 x 6 cm (box)

Environmental Design Library

Limited edition of 9 copies + 1 A/P, signed and numbered by the artist.
Artist book consisting of a 2 compartment drop-spine box; acrylic book (7 pages linked by white threads and spine composed of 3 dark threads) in the left compartment [1] and scroll with text in right compartment [2].
Title from colophon inside compartment 1 of the box.
"Produced as a limited edition bookwork featuring extracts from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities."
Additional copyrights: "Text ©1972 by Italo Calvino ; translation ©1974 by William Weaver ; illustrations ©2016 by Lauren Winges."
Materials: Cast and extruded acrylic, aluminum leaf and pigment, silk and linen threads, HMP, laser toner, book board, book cloth, paper, wood, linen ribbon, acrylic rod, aluminum tape
"Cities and Eyes uses extracts from Invisible Cities, a novel by Italo Calvino, ©1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. I developed this work for Constellation Studio's 2016 exhibit Metropolis and Invisible Cities. Calvino's book presents descriptions of 55 imaginary cities as told to Kublai Khan by the explorer Marco Polo. I chose to work with the five cities in the Cities and Eyes sections of Calvino's book: Valrada, Zemrude, Baucis, Phyllis and Moriana. Lauren Winges created the original drawings, which were converted to digital files for laseretching onto cast acrylic pages. A series of threads connects the outside front cover through each page to the outside back cover; each side of the rigid, transparent pages features one of Lauren's drawings and includes the name of the city that inspired the drawings. The full text of the five chapters used as the basis for the project is printed on a scroll that is mounted in its own compartment in the box the book is housed in" -- Description from Abecedarian Gallery at http://abecedariangallery.com/store/shop/alicia-bailey-cities-and-eyes/ -- last viewed 20170620.

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