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Anne-Claude Cotty ~ Maine |
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Chameleon series with paste papers
Sahara and photography |
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| Anne-Claude Cotty: "About 12 years ago, I returned from seven days of walking in the Sahara Desert with pebbles in my pockets and film in pinhole boxes and a plastic toy camera. These primitive, soft-focus cameras caught some of the mystery that held us captive in the desert. They joined in the play of the wind and the sand as the dunes reformed themselves in perpetual motion. The images are spare and imbued with poetry." |
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Open Me With Your Silence
Walk in the Sahara
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 1999. One-of-a-Kind.
5.5 x 6"; 18 pages. Silver gelatin prints from plastic camera photographs. Japanese papers. Bound in paper covered boards with sewn binding.
Open me with the silence of your gliding monuments
Let me hear the lizard etch its trail
and the sun chisel rhythms in the sand. ...
$400 |
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| Cotty created a series of books using paste papers to create the illustrations |
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For Flame Trees and Bird
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 1996. One-of-a-Kind.
11 x 12 x 1.5" closed; extends to 50". Accordion structure (five panels made up of two 2-panel wings that pull out from a central panel) with paste paper collage. Calligraphy. Bound into green cloth clamshell box with rectangular opening in front cover to allow a hint of what is to come.
One in Cotty's Chameleon series. Paste paper collage creates a dense kaleidoscope of color, shape, and form. Flora/fauna, fusion/confusion - all through the magic of paper and the artist's touch. Accompanied by a two selections of text in handprinted calligraphy:
Man has gone to the moon but he has not yet known
how to make a flame tree or a bird song. (Houphouet-Boigny)
If there must be war, let the weapons be your healing hands.
Let your call to battle be a song for the earth. (Mostafa Tolba)
$900 |
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Chameleons on Parade
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 1994. One-of-a-Kind.
10 x 12 x 1.25", opens to 28"; 2 tri-foldout leaves. Paste paper collage. Bound into black cloth clamshell box . Decorative element on cover.
This romp of paste paper collage is one in a series about chameleons.
$900
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Evening Performance
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.
9 x 9 x 1.5"; 24 unnumbered pages. Photograms toned and handcolored and poetic text digitally printed. Bound in Japanese silk covers with a small cloth-covered frame (3.5 x 3.25") containing an abstract photogram on the front board.
Anne-Claude Cotty: "Evening Performance began as one of a group of tiny books to be worn as brooches entitled, Landscapes of the Heart. Each explored a different landscape to touch the heart: a play of sun and wind in the Sahara Desert, a rhythmic swell of sea in a Maine fishing village, and this one, a moment of rapture ignited by the moon. Simply put, it's a love poem.
"The spare text accompanies spare images made in my darkroom - photograms (the result of light shone through objects on photo paper) which are handcolored with oils. I've cut small windows into the preceding pages, a process of 'excerpting' to create a second series of images and to sharpen the eye on seeing the full-page photographs."
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Intermezzo: Songs without Words
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 1998. One-of-a-Kind.
5.5 x 5.5 x 1"; 30 pages. Blind relief. Photo vignettes. Somerset Satin paper. Embossed prints . 35mm photographs taken with macro lens.
An unusual combination of techniques – embossed prints and vignette photographs on facing pages – forces response into new territory, abstract, tactile, and outside the walls of rationality.
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The Silent World is Our Only Homeland
By Francis Ponge
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.
5.25 x 5.25 x 1.5"; 18 pages. Accordion structure. Photograms with Mordancage [a late 19th-century process originally used to reverse a film negative to a positive] toning. Digitally printed.
Text from Le parti pris des choses (The Voices of Things) by Francis Ponge (1899 - 1988). The otherworldly tone of the photographs adds a ghostly elegance to Ponge's simple language.
Francis Ponge: "French poet who crafted intricate prose poems about everyday objects. He sought to create a visual equivalence between language and subject matter by emphasizing word associations and by manipulating the sound, rhythm, and typography of the words to mimic the essential characteristics of the object described." (Encyclopedia Britannica)
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Surrender
A Walk in the Sahara
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 1999/2009. One-of-a-Kind.
6 x 7.5 x 1"; 26 pages. Silver gelatin prints from plastic camera photographs. Japanese papers. Bound in paper covered boards with sewn binding.
Let the sun lap the bowl of your chest with its dark tongue.
Let its breath warm the cold sand of your heart.
Let the wind carve you a cradle and wrap you in its evening song.
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To Come into Flower
By Anne-Claude Cotty
Stonington, Maine: Anne-Claude Cotty, 2004. Edition of 10.
7 x 7 x 1.5"; 21 leaves. Silver gelatin prints on Cachet Expo AG metallic paper. Bernhard Modern and Aquiline Book typefaces. Printed on Canford and Lamali papers. Black pastedowns and end pages. Bound in purple cloth with black cloth spine. Housed in black cloth-covered clamshell box with photo inset on lid.
A tribute in words and photographs. Photographs are of the flowers at the memorial service held for Anne-Claude Cotty's mother.
Anne-Claude Cotty: '"In memory of my mother Yvette M. Cotty (1923-2004) who spoke in secret to her flowers. They in turn would bend toward her in response. Indoors and outdoors, she tended them lovingly and they flourished with pride."
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