This piece is a semi-finalist for the 2026 MCBA Prize and on view in our gallery August 29 - November 29.
"Day Book is a text-image-material poem about time, memory, reading, and mortality. A book of hours, a book of the dead.
Day Book was made using a combination of letterpress, collagraph, monoprinting, delamination, fingerprinting, risograph, and mixed media drawing. It is bound with a drumleaf binding in wrapped boards and is contained in a clamshell box made by Adam Bryant. The edition of twelve is highly and purposefully variable, with each copy containing unique collagraph prints, monoprints, and ink and graphite drawing. Each copy is a new day. Each copy is a going forth.
The book consists of three entangled elements. The first is made up of page spreads printed with collagraph and monoprinting. Each copy starts with two individual sets of two collagraph plates and one monoprint. Those layers are printed using a simple procedure: 30 copies with no re-inking. Each copy of the book contains all 30 of those prints, in sequence, for each set of plates, with one sequence running from dark-to-light and one running from light-to-dark. The compositions of each individual plate are based on observational drawing and how they are paired is determined by chance. This element is the skeleton of the book, the consistency of the day-to-day, the cycle of waking and dreaming.
The second element is a series of delaminated pages with smaller booklets sewn into them, placed in randomized positions in each copy. These are interruptions, dreams, reveries, moments of attention, memories, spells, and/or prayers. All of those possibilities at once. The fingerprinting on the delaminated pages tracks the time-intensive process of cutting each page by hand. The booklets started with a base text that was letterpress printed from lasercut matboard plates. The images were composed on the glass of the Riso, with layers of delamination and graphite drawing as well.
The third element is made up of direct ink drawings in the interior space of the drumleaf binding, visible through the transparency of the pages or the holes in the delaminated sheets. These drawings occur at the start and end of each copy and before and after each instance of the second element. The colors used in the drawings are sampled from photographs taken during different times of day, and which colors get used and what subjects are depicted in the drawings changes depending on where in the book they are located. These are ghosts, reminders, memories. Still-lifes. Nature morte. Memento mori. The cycle of dreaming and waking.
The text is rendered in an experimental set of letterforms made to slow down and draw attention to the act of reading. The letterforms themselves are modular, made from a set of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines that repeat in a structure based on doors, windows, and bookshelves. Day Book is a meditation on the act of attention to, the reading of, and caring for, the everyday." —Aaron Cohick
12" x 17.5" x 2"
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece is a semi-finalist for the 2026 MCBA Prize and on view in our gallery August 29 - November 29.
"Day Book is a text-image-material poem about time, memory, reading, and mortality. A book of hours, a book of the dead.
Day Book was made using a combination of letterpress, collagraph, monoprinting, delamination, fingerprinting, risograph, and mixed media drawing. It is bound with a drumleaf binding in wrapped boards and is contained in a clamshell box made by Adam Bryant. The edition of twelve is highly and purposefully variable, with each copy containing unique collagraph prints, monoprints, and ink and graphite drawing. Each copy is a new day. Each copy is a going forth.
The book consists of three entangled elements. The first is made up of page spreads printed with collagraph and monoprinting. Each copy starts with two individual sets of two collagraph plates and one monoprint. Those layers are printed using a simple procedure: 30 copies with no re-inking. Each copy of the book contains all 30 of those prints, in sequence, for each set of plates, with one sequence running from dark-to-light and one running from light-to-dark. The compositions of each individual plate are based on observational drawing and how they are paired is determined by chance. This element is the skeleton of the book, the consistency of the day-to-day, the cycle of waking and dreaming.
The second element is a series of delaminated pages with smaller booklets sewn into them, placed in randomized positions in each copy. These are interruptions, dreams, reveries, moments of attention, memories, spells, and/or prayers. All of those possibilities at once. The fingerprinting on the delaminated pages tracks the time-intensive process of cutting each page by hand. The booklets started with a base text that was letterpress printed from lasercut matboard plates. The images were composed on the glass of the Riso, with layers of delamination and graphite drawing as well.
The third element is made up of direct ink drawings in the interior space of the drumleaf binding, visible through the transparency of the pages or the holes in the delaminated sheets. These drawings occur at the start and end of each copy and before and after each instance of the second element. The colors used in the drawings are sampled from photographs taken during different times of day, and which colors get used and what subjects are depicted in the drawings changes depending on where in the book they are located. These are ghosts, reminders, memories. Still-lifes. Nature morte. Memento mori. The cycle of dreaming and waking.
The text is rendered in an experimental set of letterforms made to slow down and draw attention to the act of reading. The letterforms themselves are modular, made from a set of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines that repeat in a structure based on doors, windows, and bookshelves. Day Book is a meditation on the act of attention to, the reading of, and caring for, the everyday." —Aaron Cohick
12" x 17.5" x 2"
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
