Tuscaloosa, AL
Kiyoko (Top) $350
Daily Bread (Bottom) $125
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Letterpress printed from metal types; relief printmaking- color reduction linoleum blocks; binding style is a variation of the Japanese stab binding and Japanese portfolio. Handmade Alabama Kozo paper, made by Pirkle, Japanese patterned paper, Japanese bone clasps, book cloth. 5.125 x 4.125 x .625 inches. 14 pages. Edition of 30.
Artist Statement
This book was letterpress printed on Japanese style Alabama kozo paper, handmade in the fall of 2005. From harvesting the mulberry, to scraping the bark, beating the fibers by hand, and pulling sheets, I went to great effort to reproduce traditional methods of creating Asian-style paper in Alabama.
The blending of Western and Eastern book arts techniques exemplify the text of “Kiyoko.” These haikus (written by my twin sister) illustrate the life of our grandmother Kiyoko (my mother’s mother)–uprooted from her family in Japan as a young woman, starting a new life in America in the unforgiving South of the 1950’s.About this Book - Daily Bread
Letterpress printed from metal types; relief printmaking- color reduction linoleum blocks; binding style is a hard cover pamphlet with fold out pages. Nideggen mould-made paper, Fabriano Ingres paper (sky blue and rust), linen thread, binder’s board. 4.75 x 6.25 x .25 inches. 16 pages. Edition of 45.
Artist Statement
It seems as though every society, every culture, has a traditional bread associated with their cuisine. For Southerners, a true southern dinner includes homemade buttermilk biscuits on the side. As far back as I can remember I knew that when I walked into my grandmother’s kitchen in South Georgia, I’d find her in the kitchen with a hot batch of biscuits made from scratch. I printed this book as a tribute to her and to celebrate such simple pleasures as homemade biscuits at Sunday dinner with family. The images in this book are based off of photographs I took of my grandmother (my father’s mother) making biscuits one cold December morning.
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