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「天の川」sea tiles: memories of the tides Artist's Book by Angelica Ong

$30.00

“This photo book draws on photograms that I created for an earlier project: a large, sculptural waterfall flipbook entitled 《起伏》sea tiles: dreaming tides, gathering and unravelling which comprises photograms that I made at sea under moonlight over multiple days. This current photobook and the previous one can be seen as part of the same series. To create the original prints used in the waterfall flipbook, I travelled to the beach at night, plunged photosensitive paper into the water, activated my flash, and then developed the prints in a darkroom the next morning. Each photogram is a record of the sea, capturing its energy and the environmental conditions of that precise moment, isolating a fleeting instant amidst ceaseless tidal cycles, at once eternal and ever-changing.

To create this new book, I scanned the photograms, experimented with different image crops and reprinted them via risograph. I insisted on printing with white ink on black paper such that the ink prints the actual subject (the seawater) and not the black swathes of negative space. This book「天の川」can be seen as the mini companion to the first iteration《起伏》.” -Angelica Ong

4” x 6.5”

*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.

“This photo book draws on photograms that I created for an earlier project: a large, sculptural waterfall flipbook entitled 《起伏》sea tiles: dreaming tides, gathering and unravelling which comprises photograms that I made at sea under moonlight over multiple days. This current photobook and the previous one can be seen as part of the same series. To create the original prints used in the waterfall flipbook, I travelled to the beach at night, plunged photosensitive paper into the water, activated my flash, and then developed the prints in a darkroom the next morning. Each photogram is a record of the sea, capturing its energy and the environmental conditions of that precise moment, isolating a fleeting instant amidst ceaseless tidal cycles, at once eternal and ever-changing.

To create this new book, I scanned the photograms, experimented with different image crops and reprinted them via risograph. I insisted on printing with white ink on black paper such that the ink prints the actual subject (the seawater) and not the black swathes of negative space. This book「天の川」can be seen as the mini companion to the first iteration《起伏》.” -Angelica Ong

4” x 6.5”

*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.

Angelica Ong (she/her) is a Singaporean artist working primarily in photography and bookmaking. Two main aspects of her practice are slow art and language. She is intrigued by ephemera, the human body, everyday subject matter (like trees, birds, eggs, and light), multilingualism, and translation. Effusing fragility and a meditative quality, her work acts as pause, breath, and space, inviting the audience to wander, examine the world closely, and discover monumentality in minutiae. Angelica seeks to decentralize the primacy of the English language through providing titles in multiple languages, which are oftentimes not translations of each other. Ong has exhibited work in solo and group shows at SAIC SITE Sharp Gallery (Chicago), W. Gallery (Chicago), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), and starch (Singapore) and has been named one of the Top 26 to Watch for the Lenscratch Student Prize 2023.
Instagram: @CatchingSunlight_

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