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Midnight Moon Press ~ California
(Ginger Burrell)
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Nature at work
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Loves Me / Not
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2011. Edition of 10.
1.75 x 5.25 x 1.75"; 12 pages. Archival inkjet printed on Rives BFK. Bound in cloth boards with black ribbon tie.
Ginger Burrell: "We've all felt them, the rollercoaster ups of being in love and the screaming downs of being hurt. Loves Me / Not is a collection of real stories gathered from women of all ages about times that they felt loved and times that they felt hurt, betrayed, and left behind. The stories are tender, poignant, and funny.
"The accordion book has fold-up leaves to create a pocket, and features the reoccurring motif of a daisy – who hasn't plucked those petals at least once? The structure is printed so that when the stories are pulled out, the daisies are still complete. The closed book is tied with a black ribbon, recalling old stacks of love letters."
$100 |
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Will They Remember
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2010. Edition of 10.
3.25 x 4.25" closed; 6.5" circular opened; 6 two-layer double-page spreads. Star-shaped accordion fold book. Original cloud photographs printed digitally with archival HP inks. Images of leaves on the exterior layer of pages. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with illustration of leaves printed on both boards. Organza ribbon tie.
Ginger Burrell: "Will They Remember evokes the vivid sensory memories of our childhoods and asks if today's children will have the same memories."
$80
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EYES
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2009. Edition of 10.
4.785 x 4.785 x 2.75" wooden box containing book and photo cubes. Book: 4 x 4"; 18 pages; archival inkjet printing on acid free cardstock; hand bound in case binding. 25 wooden cubes (.75" on a side) with eye photo on each surface. Cover and cube photos printed on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper, matte finish. Images printed from original photographs by the artist. Container: black wooden box, hinged, with metal clasp closure, illustrated paper title on lid.
Ginger Burrell: "Eyes are viewed as windows - we look to them for clues to a person's emotional state, their response to our actions, and their true self behind the social facade. EYES is a photographic experiment in the expressive potential of a single eye. Each image in this book captures an eye in the moment of expression - joy, fear, concern, puzzlement, happiness. In combination, the eyes become pixels, elements of a larger image. This book includes hand-made wooden eye cubes that provide a tactile and interactive experience using eyes as design and narrative building blocks."
$250 (Last Copy) |
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Virtual Reality
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2009. Edition of 25.
11.75 x 9"; 21 leaves. Original images and haiku by the artist. Text printed using Footlight MT Light font. Archival inkjet printing on Rives BFK. Japanese stab binding. Paper covered boards with illustrated paper title tipped on front board.
Ginger Burrell: "Virtual/Reality began with a discussion with my niece about the amazing landscapes along the Northern California coast. She told me, 'I don't need to go there, I can just look at pictures on my computer.' In Virtual/Reality haiku, paired with original photographs, argues that virtual will never replace reality."
Is the irony intentional?
$150 |
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Rocks
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2008. Edition of 5.
8 x 8.25 x 2" hinged wooden box with three partitioned sections. Tipped on illustrated title printed on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper. Metal hinged clasp closure. Includes pamphlet: 3.5 x 7.5", 18 pages, with original photographs by the artist printed with archival inkjet on Wausau Royal Fiber and bound with Japanese stab binding and handmade Kozo covers; twelve I" wooden cubes: surfaces covered with photos printed on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper with a soft gloss finish; and 16 rocks of various hues and sizes collected from Agate Beach, California.
Ginger Burrell: "We walk by them, over them, on them every day. But until we stop and pick them up, touch them and get them wet, we forget the beauty of a simple rock. In a time when most experiences come from viewing rather than doing, this piece reminds us of the joy of simple and abundant objects while at the same time exploring what it takes to make a thing what it is. What makes a rock a rock? Is a photo of a rock a rock? Is a cube with rock photos a rock? Is a rock on a screen a rock? A Japanese stab-bound book features an exploration of the shape and form of rocks and the interaction between them. Rock cubes and real rocks collected in Northern California allow the viewer to become an active participant."
$250 |
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Golden Gate Fog
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2006. Edition of 25.
11 x 9"; 34 leaves. Original photographs by the artist inkjet printed using archival inks onto acid free cardstock. Presented with soundscape recording by Greg Burrell. Post bound with black cloth over boards. Illustrated paper title on front board.
Ginger Burrell: "Long an icon of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge evokes the romance of a time of art deco beauty and the building of grand ideas. Viewed in fog, it becomes mysterious and hints of images and stories just out of reach.
"In Golden Gate Fog, the viewer listens to the rhythmic music of the ocean and fog horn recorded while the photos were taken, while viewing San Francisco as seen through a silken curtain of fog.
"Journey along the coast, through the Presidio, and to various viewpoints of the bridge as you imagine the feel of the cool fog on your skin."
$150 |
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| Personal Stories: Infertility, Rape, Fear, Death |
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Empty
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2011. Edition of 10.
4.25 x 5.25"; 8 pages. Accordion structure. Archival inkjet printing on Rives BFK. Bound in cloth-covered boards.
Ginger Burrell: "Like many women, I struggle with infertility. And, like many artists, I make art about those topics which are the hardest and the most important to explore.
"Empty explores infertility using the universal display of family photos. As my mother, my grandmother, and many mothers have before me, I imagined a display on the mantel of photos of my children: baby photos, first-day-of-school photos, graduation and wedding photos. Empty displays the frames sans photos. The lullabies I've hummed countless times to imaginary children weave through the book in a faded, almost transparent soundtrack."
$85 |
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I'm Telling You Now
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2011. Edition of 10.
4.25 x 5.25"; 8 pages. Accordion structure with simple pop-up. Archival inkjet printing on Rives BFK.
Ginger Burrell: "I am the 'one in four women who will experience sexual violence in their lifetime,' I am a survivor of rape. I tell my story because it is not a secret. I did nothing wrong and, if I tell you, we share the responsibility and the weight of it. I don't have to shoulder it all by myself any longer.
"I'm Telling You Now emphasizes the power of secrets and the way that we keep them — because of the shame and the fear that we were somehow responsible.
"When I shared this book during my BFA show, women came up to me and told me their stories, right there in the gallery. Women called me days later and told me their stories. They said things like, 'I've never told anyone, but I know you will understand.' And by telling each other our stories, I realized in those moments that we were taking away the power of the people who hurt us."
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One Second of Time has Conveyed to the Mind
a Strange Idea of Insecurity
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2011. Edition of 10.
9 x 8.75"; 20 pages. Accordion structure. Archival inkjet printing on Rives BFK. Font: Chiller. Bound in paper-covered boards of black, gold, and silver Pirouette Marbled Paper.
Ginger Burrell: "[One Second...] is irregularly folded so that from above it alludes to the seismogram. The poetry is also written and presented in seismograph form. The cover paper [is] meant to evoke layers of sedimentary earth.
"The title, One Second of Time, comes from a quote by Charles Darwin in 1839: 'A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.'
"When I am in a big warehouse store, I think about earthquakes. When I walk across a parking structure, I think about earthquakes. When I am on vacation, I think about earthquakes. This book began as an expression of my hyperawareness. I created monoprints with jagged edges and a sense of motion, and then combined them in Photoshop with found, public domain images of earthquake damage. I then combined the imagery with poetry expressing my near obsession with earthquakes."
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The Heaven Project
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2010. Edition of 25.
14.4 x 9"; 32 pages. Composite images created from original and found photographs. Archival inkjet printing on Rives BFK. Post bound in paper covered boards. Illustrated paper title tipped on front board.
Ginger Burrell: "The Heaven Project began during a trip to Yellowstone National Park during the summer of 2009. I came across a rabbit that had been run over and had the thought that bunnies must go to Heaven because obviously they were 'good.' What could a rabbit possibly do that wasn't good? I was not brought up in any specific religion, and my mental picture of Heaven is still the one I've had since I was a little girl kneeling next to my bed with my grandma teaching me the words, 'Now I lay me down to sleep.' I started to wonder where God put all of the people and animals when they go to Heaven. I asked my husband his opinion, and assumed, since he was raised Catholic, that there would be a standard answer. Instead, he told me that he thinks Heaven is individual for each person. That God grants us the Heaven we envision. If there are bunnies in my version of Heaven, then they'll be there. If my grandma is in my version, she'll be there, too. I didn't expect this answer from someone brought up with a particular church doctrine, and I started to wonder. What does each person think their Heaven will look like? I sent out an e-mail to mailing lists and listservs with the above text and asked people to send me a description of their version of Heaven. The replies are generous, trusting and sublime. It has been a gift to be allowed a glimpse into such personal visions."
The Heaven Project includes 11 individual descriptions of heaven, each with a composite photograph created by Burrell.
$150 |
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Hands
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2010. Edition of 5.
4.75 x 4.75"; 24 pages. Original photographs by the artist inkjet printed using archival inks onto acid free cardstock. Definitions derived from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary (2nd edition). Case bound in linen book cloth with unique cover embellishment.
Ginger Burrell: "The sepia-toned photographs create a warm tapestry of hands at work, at play, and in interaction. By focusing solely on the hands, the images capture emotion as expressed in body language. Each photograph has a unique story reflected in definitions of hand-related words."
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Ode to Anne Atkins
By Ginger Burrell
San Jose, California: Midnight Moon Press, 2010. Edition of 10.
2.75 x 5.25"; 13 leaves. Fourteen cyanotypes on Rives BFK (12 individual leaves, 2 cover images). Bound in an envelope fan book.
Prospectus: "Ode to Anna Atkins is my homage to women artists in general and Anna Atkins in particular. Anna Atkins was raised by her scientist father and was encouraged from an early age in making images with a scientific theme – first in drawings and engravings and later in photography. Her friendship with William Fox Talbot gave her access to the 'photogenic drawing technique' in which an object is placed on paper coated with light sensitive emulsion (Now called cyanotype.). Some say that Anna Atkins was the first female photographer."
Ginger Burrell: "I was fortunate enough to see Anna Atkins’ book, British Algae, while I was in New York. Though made in 1843, the images are still clear, beautiful, and delicate. I was thrilled with Anna Atkins book when I first saw photos of it in Art History. Having the opportunity to actually see it in person – a highlight of my trip to New York.
"My artists’ book is an ode to Anna Atkins using cyanotypes of flowers of Northern California. I just couldn’t get excited about algae. ...[There are] tiny little details visible in each cyanotype. The trick, press and dry the flowers first. Fresh flowers have too much dimensionality and create shadows in the cyanotypes. Very flat, very dry flowers are as effective as a digital negative.
"... I thought a clean blue background would be too one-dimensional with the flat white so instead of applying the cyanotype solution in a meticulous bi-directional two layered process, I used a sponge brush, only brushed in one direction and let the solution pool slightly in some areas. ... The actual cyanotypes have more of a subtle morphing of color between areas. ... I love the process and the sound of the water while rinsing the images. It’s kind of like having one of those little fountains in the kitchen – it just happens to have photos in it."
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