Photo Book Works

Mary L. Taylor
Marshfield, MA

Chuño

Chuño tells a story about the historic origins potatoes as a valuable food and economic resource.  After returning from a trip to the Sacred Valley area of Peru in 2007, I used my photographs to create a series of tapestry-like canvases with digitally manipulated imagery. I then photographed the tapestries and those images were integrated with my text and different photographs from the trip. To give the book a mildly dug from the earth look, I made a burlap “potato sack” to house the book and toned the pages with bronze colored pigments and walnut ink.

80 page codex sewn over tapes with cloth over board covers. Pigment digital prints on Inkpress Duo Matte Paper toned with pigments and polyester fabric covers. Images and text by Mary Taylor. Presented in a burlap sack. 7.5 x 5.25 x 1 inches. 2008. Edition of 5.

To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Artist Biography

Mary Taylor’s artistic training came from working daily with her mentor Dorothy Simpson Krause. She is currently teaching workshops at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, at the International Center of Photography, New York, NY and in her Marshfield, MA studio. Her work is exhibited in several juried and invitational shows annually and is in private and public collections.