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Sally Blakemore
Santa Fe, NM

FlameGuard

I was intrigued by Edith Lambert's dream, FlameGuard, she wrote as a poem and read to me on the phone. I immediately recognized the exotic and haunting metaphor for loneliness as the content for the dream. I asked her if I could create a shadowbox book using FlameGuard as the content to be hand printed on a two color proofing press in Singapore.

I was working in China on a series of manufactured books and had used the proofing press and remembered its capacity for registration. I paper engineered the spreads from Deborah Edward's eerie interpretations of the text from sketches. I scanned and produced the book on a Mac. I made hand cut prototypes for Madam Wong's hand assembly group in Johor Baru, Malaysia. I find it alluring and a meditation of quiet solitude. I used handmade paper from Bali for the cover wrap.

C1S white Carolina paper, scanned and printed art on a 2-color proofing press, handmade Balinese paper cover. 18 pages. 8.25 x 7.25 x 1 inches. Edition of 200.

$200

To inquire about availability of this edition, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery. We would be happy to check with the artist to see additional copies are available for purchase.

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