This piece was selected for our 2026 Fore Edge Fair online artist book sale. If you're interested in keeping up with acquisitions opportunities through our Fore Edge initiative, sign up for the Fore Edge newsletter here.
If placing an online order is not possible for your organization, please send a purchase order to aschiferl@mnbookarts.org and we will hold your items and follow up with an invoice. We request payment within 30 days of receipt.
“This artist book comprises 11 gelatin silver prints. Made in the structure of a waterfall flipbook, it consists of ‘wet-process’ photograms that I made of seawater as the waves crashed on the shore under the moonlight.
I created this artist book while asking: How do we feel and experience time’s passing? Previously, I looked at dust and its accumulation, incense and its consumption. Recently, I was thinking about the sun, which brought me to the moon and lunar cycles. Rather than the appearance of the moon, how do we feel the cycles of the moon? This took my mind to tidal cycles, which are affected by the gravitational pull of the moon.
To create each print, I traveled to the beach at night, plunged a sheet of darkroom paper into the seawater, exposed it with my camera flash, and then stored it in a black, light-tight bag. I repeated this process numerous times to amass a deck of exposures. I then developed the paper the next morning in a darkroom.
Made over multiple days, each photogram is a record (or ‘tile’) of the sea, capturing its energy and the environmental conditions at that precise moment, isolating a fleeting instant in the ceaseless cycle of tidal movements, at once eternal and ever-changing.
The photogram: It is very Important to me that the paper made direct contact with the seawater, such that the record of it is as raw and unmediated as possible. I want each print to function like a footprint in the sand—the sea making its mark on the paper directly, leaving a trace behind for us to remember it by.
The structure: I chose the waterfall flipbook structure not only to remind audiences of the movement of the waves, but to also create a more participatory and bodily experience with the work. This waterfall flipbook comes with its own stand which is housed within a clamshell box, all of which is handmade by me.” -Angelica Ong
5” x 21“ x 2”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece was selected for our 2026 Fore Edge Fair online artist book sale. If you're interested in keeping up with acquisitions opportunities through our Fore Edge initiative, sign up for the Fore Edge newsletter here.
If placing an online order is not possible for your organization, please send a purchase order to aschiferl@mnbookarts.org and we will hold your items and follow up with an invoice. We request payment within 30 days of receipt.
“This artist book comprises 11 gelatin silver prints. Made in the structure of a waterfall flipbook, it consists of ‘wet-process’ photograms that I made of seawater as the waves crashed on the shore under the moonlight.
I created this artist book while asking: How do we feel and experience time’s passing? Previously, I looked at dust and its accumulation, incense and its consumption. Recently, I was thinking about the sun, which brought me to the moon and lunar cycles. Rather than the appearance of the moon, how do we feel the cycles of the moon? This took my mind to tidal cycles, which are affected by the gravitational pull of the moon.
To create each print, I traveled to the beach at night, plunged a sheet of darkroom paper into the seawater, exposed it with my camera flash, and then stored it in a black, light-tight bag. I repeated this process numerous times to amass a deck of exposures. I then developed the paper the next morning in a darkroom.
Made over multiple days, each photogram is a record (or ‘tile’) of the sea, capturing its energy and the environmental conditions at that precise moment, isolating a fleeting instant in the ceaseless cycle of tidal movements, at once eternal and ever-changing.
The photogram: It is very Important to me that the paper made direct contact with the seawater, such that the record of it is as raw and unmediated as possible. I want each print to function like a footprint in the sand—the sea making its mark on the paper directly, leaving a trace behind for us to remember it by.
The structure: I chose the waterfall flipbook structure not only to remind audiences of the movement of the waves, but to also create a more participatory and bodily experience with the work. This waterfall flipbook comes with its own stand which is housed within a clamshell box, all of which is handmade by me.” -Angelica Ong
5” x 21“ x 2”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
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