New West Coast Design: Books     
Curators: Mary Austin & Kathleen Burch
In the Gallery Jan 25-Apr 25, 2008     

 

		< Previous | Catalogue | Next > View Julie Chen, Flying Fish Press, Berkeley, California www.flyingfishpress.com Written, illustrated, and designed by Julie Chen. A magic wallet structure: two books recount and process a dream and a cloth shadow box offers the dreamscape. Letterpress printed using a combination of photopolymer plates, wood blocks, and pressure plates, and assembled at the studios of Flying Fish Press. 2006; Edition of 100. Based on a personal experience of loss, View deals directly with ideas of coming to terms with mortality. The piece includes two books that are housed in a compartmented box. After the books have been read, the box can be tilted forward to reveal a mesmerizing view of a miniature world. Julie Chen comments: "Flying Fish Press is dedicated to the design and production of books that combine the quality and craftsmanship of traditional letterpress printing with the innovation and visual excitement of contemporary non-traditional book structures and modern typography. The resulting structures can function both traditionally as books as well as sculpturally as objects to be displayed. We dream the answers before we ask the questions."
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