Artists’ books

When we read a traditional book, we enter a world created by words. When we read an artists’ book, that world is extended into a sensory one—through words, images, touch, size, weight, and sound. The way we engage with an artist’s book—its physicality (lifting and turning pages) and sensorial qualities—creates a unique experience. Our fingertips feel the structure of the pages; we smell the paint or ink; we absorb the size and composition visually. What sound does the weight of a page make?

Simply by a casual gesture, whether or not we’re aware of it, we have an embodied experience. A world unfolds—its shared memory triggered by form, by the (sequential) composition of image and text, by the book’s weight, size, touch, sound, texture, and the smell of its materials.

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