The overall project here is an ongoing study of various processes, natural, cultural, and phenomenological, through the use of graphical means (drawings of events, particles, fragments, and the aesthetics of decay, etc.). This has been a concern since the 1970s. The editioned work is a catalogue to accompany an exhibition and contains representative images from all of these various series created over more than three decades.
Scans of watercolors and drawings, placed into InDesign, texts added for description and gloss, printed on the Epson, gathered into a signature and bound.
typographic: Agenda used throughout.
imagery: Watercolors and drawings reproduced fairly well in the inkjet.
graphical: Simple text and image juxtapositions.
This is clearly an exhibition catalogue, simply produced, modest in format.
Johanna Drucker
type: initiating
role:
artist
author
designer
publisher: Druckwerk
dates:
publication: 2005-12-01
publication history: Single edition created to accompany an exhibition in Charlottesville.
movement:
conceptual (AAT)
subject:
ecological Art (AAT)
themes: Nature drawing and scientific illustration.
content form:
drawings and pictures
publication tradition:
catalogue (AAT)
inspiration: The work is inspired by nature illustration and scientific drawing, but the book is simply an exhibition catalogue.
related works: Experience of the Medium, Damaged Nature, Events/Particles, Subjective Meteorology
other influences: Nature illustrations of various kinds.
manuscript type: texts
location: artist's archive
manuscript type: other
location: artist's archive drawings and paintings
edition type: editioned
publisher: Druckwerk
place: Charlottesville
dates:
publication: 2005-12-01
edition size: unknown
note: Not sure how many of these were produced.
horizontal: 7 inches closed
vertical: 8 1/2 inches closed
production means:
inkjet (AAT)
binding: smyth sewing (AAT) Pamphlet stitch
substrate:
bookBlock: paper Mohawk superfine
media:
inkjet
general description: A modest pamphlet, without cover, almost looks like it is a text block that escaped from its binding.
format: pamphlet (AAT)
cover: Mohawk superfine, self-cover.
color: yes inkjet from scans
pagination: unpaginated 32
numbered?: unnumbered
signed?: signed
Produced in conjuction with an exhibition at the Off Grounds Gallery in December 2005, sponsored by the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.
manuscript type: mockups
location: artist's archive
note: These are all saved, including misprint pages.