The explorations delve into the mutability of memory and images, with each print as a unique iteration of an ever-changing image. Through manual reproductions and manipulation, the image shifts, distorts, and reshapes the original.
To look at a thousand images a thousand times through one image. To see it again and again until it is no longer the image. To recall memories repeatedly until they become something new.
size 670 x 40cm (displayed on the white panel, the print is partially rolled up); 152 x 40cm (on wall)
Variations, details, scroll print size 670 x 40cm
Variations, details, scroll print size 670 x 40cm
Variations, details, scroll print size 670 x 40cm
Variations, details, scroll print size 670 x 40cm
Variations, details, scroll print size 670 x 40cm
Variations, details, scroll print size 670 x 40cm
Variations (publication) center around one photographic image. Every copy is unique in its composition; every page is different from the next.
Originating from the engraving imprint materials of the image, the scans capture remnants of the printing process. These pieces of paper, utilized to ensure clean prints, are essentially leftovers from the engraving printing process. Through a myriad of processes and materials, the original photographic image undergoes transformation. The variations are the result of analog reproduction techniques, such as photo engraving and offset printing.
The imprints from the image and etching plate are transformed into six offset plates. Editing, designing, printing, reprinting, folding, and assembling the pages in shifting orders contributes to a multitude of variations, resulting in an edition of 285 individual publications.
self-publishedISBN 9789090386195
size 312x231mm
52 pages
offset printed on Holmen TRND 2.0 70gsm
cover printed on Olin Origins Pebble 240gsm
publication edit and design in collaboration with Cathy Hu
edition of 285
2024
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