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Binder
By Kris Merola and Tate Shaw
Tallahassee, Florida: Small Craft Advisory Press, 2010. Edition of 60.
7.25 x 9 x 1.5"; 26 pages. Single sheet letterpress pages printed on SCAP's Vandercook Universal 1. Photographs on Kodak Portra film scanned for digital imaging and layout. Printed on Crane Lettra paper. Bound in three-ring binder with laser engraved details. Laser cut and engraved paper sculptural object in pocket of first page. Signed and numbered by the artists.
Small Craft Advisory Press: "Binder is a reflection on the evolution of the paper family photo archive. Artists Kris Merloa and Tate Shaw created a virtual family photo archive and framed it within a fictional scholarly tome complete with fictional works cited page and printed page turns. The pages are contained within a binder with the possibility of reordering. The family pictured in the images are people in the artist's close circle of friends. The binder family references groups within communities of people that move away from their birthplaces and create familial like connections and relationships based on work, location, vocation, and geographical proximity."
Collaboration as Impetus, CBAA 2011 session abstract: "In 2010 Merola and Shaw were invited to create an edition for the new experimental artists’ residency and publishing program at Florida State University’s Small Craft Advisory Press and FormLab. Binder is a 24-page book letterpress printed from photopolymer plates and includes a pocket to hold an irregular, 2-D polyhedra that was laser-etched and cut and can be folded and transitioned by the reader for the creation of geometric, 3-D forms. Binder is a 3-ring binder and artificial study manual about an invented theory of Virtual Families. Merola, a photographer whose previous projects conceptualized family photographs, turned her camera on a group of friends that are family placeholders. As with many family albums, the photographer is mostly absent from the book’s images, created in both 2004 and 2010. In past projects Merola’s work has shown that current trends toward digital storage of family archives are an unsettled matter in contrast to Shaw’s work, which accepts and reflects the mass shift toward digitization in our culture. Shaw and Merola saw SCAP’s letterpress and digitally driven FormLab as an opportunity to collaborate and respond to their own divergent thinking about the image in a digital era. Merola’s photographs were made on film, scanned, and then merged with Shaw’s digital book layout. Each page was output back to film for photopolymer plate production. The same images were used as faces of the digitally designed 2-D object prepared for laser etching and cutting. Shaw’s recent projects making 3-D photo sculptures that represent the flexibility of contemporary digital image storage, paired with Merola’s photographs, brought about a concept that is the Virtual Family. For Shaw and Merola’s, Binder, a Virtual Family is a group that gathers and functions as a family unit while maintaining flexible boundaries and without a hierarchical structure. Likewise the pages of their 3-ring binder book have a flexible sequence and boundary (they can be added to or subtracted from). The same is true for the 2-D polyhedra object included, which can be permutated infinitely without ever forming a geometric Platonic solid."
$250
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Days Have Gone By
By Colin Frazer
Tallahassee, Florida: Small Craft Advisory Press, 2010. Edition of 40.
5.75 x 7.5"; 38 pages. Leather covered book with snap closure. Inside pages are two pamphlet stitched sections pasted facing each other, allowing pages from each section to interleave in any order. The book was made with laser cut wood blocks on SCAP's Vandercook Universal 1 letterpress. The pages where then subsequently laser cut and bound. The cover was also laser cut. Each book comes with a unique sound composition on soundtrack, housed on the inside of the front cover. Signed by the artist.
Small Craft Advisory Press: "Colin Frazer spent a month in the gulf coast of Florida. He traveled along the coast for a week collecting photos of the landscape, flora, and fauna. He then returned to Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University, where he translated the images into geometric patterns, cut blocks, printed pages, and layered the pages to form the complexity of the Florida gulf coast landscape interpreted in pattern and paper."
Colin Frazer, Introduction: "The book you now hold is the artifact of an experimental adventure. After a week of exploration and camping in the woods and swamps of northern Florida, I endeavored to represent the spirit of the natural world through color and pattern. The sound composition is a soundtrack, and unique to each book."
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