Subway Origami combines the subway lines on the Tokyo Metro map with the folds in origami paper. I created it soon after moving to Tokyo, having been in awe at how collapsable space is in the city.
This painting was exhibited at Tacchi Studios, Shibuya and Clouds, Koenji in Tokyo.
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Full Circle is a book made from vinyl, wood, and glue. As part of the Books From Things series this is an attempt to make a non-linear book.
Full Circle has been shown at various art book fairs.
Meat is a book made from several slices of folded beef. As part of the Books From Things series, these pages were sourced from a local supermarket. I wanted to make a book using the most fundamental of physical materials.
… is a book made from dice and glue, and is part of the Books From Things series. I liked the idea of assembling a book from existing objects. My initial choice of dice was based on the pattern that the dots make, suggesting a code or language.
… was shown at Bristol Art Book Event 2022 and was sold to Bookartbookshop.
Bruno Munari, ‘An Unreadable Quadrat’ (1953)
What can a book be? How can the form of the book be used as an artwork in itself? Often published in small editions, or produced as one-of-a-kind objects, Artists’ Books came about as an alternative space to produce and/or disseminate ideas.
Generally speaking, Artists’ Books are interactive, portable, movable and easily shared but this genre is vast.
Here follows an all-too-brief selection of modern artists whom have reconfigured the mediavel invention:
Dieter Roth, ‘bok 4a’ (1961)
Lygia Clark, ‘Livro-obra’ (1964-1983)
Ed Ruscha, ‘Every building on the Sunset Strip (1966)
George Maciunas, ‘Fluxkit' (1966–67)
Augusto de Campos, Open (Abre), (1969)
Marcel Broodthaers, ‘Atlas’ (1975)
Sol Lewitt, ‘Brick Wall’ (1977)
Julije Knifer, ‘Hölderlin, Der Rhein’ (1984)
Yaacov Agam, ‘Rainbow Torah’, (1992)
Ettore Spalletti, ‘Salle de Fêtes’ (1998)
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, ‘Will happiness find me?’ (2003)
Christian Marclay, ‘Shuffle’ (2007)
Allan McCollum, ’The Book of Shapes’ (2010)
Sun Young Kang, ‘Memories Unfolded’ (2011)
Les Bicknell, ‘The Weight of Invisibility’ (2012)
Tauba Auerbach, ‘Stab/Ghost’ (2013)
Noriko Ambe, A Piece of Flat Globe Volume 34 (2013)
Valérie Buess, ‘Boycotting Its Original Content’ (2017)
Julie Johnstone, ‘The Sound of the Rain’ (2017)