bibliomanes 2010

I will be part of a little group show soon at the arts library of UQAM in Montreal. The show is about books, artist books, art books and book-objects. I will present my matchbook thing at this show as a book-0bject along many other works by the other students of the multiple, series and edition course. Here is a link to the facebook event for those of you who are on facebook and here is a poster proposal I made for the event :

matchbooks project is on is way.

I worked quite a lot on my matchbooks project lately. It will be a sculptural art piece composed of a little wooden reliquary filled with white matchbooks. and in each of the matchbooks will be a little drawing of a tool…Visitors will be invited to take one the matchbooks with them, slowly emptying the reliquary. Oh and I forgot to mention that it will be displayed in a library… farenheit 451 anyone?

Here are some of the drawings I made at this time, sorry for the pretty bad scan but as always I cruely lack of a digital camera.

first lithography

Yesterday I printed my first lithography edition…20 copies in about 4 hours, really this printing technique is fast and its steps are quite easy to assimilate. Plus it premits so musch types of images to be created, pencilwork, ink, washes…So here is the lithography in question and I will put some on the etsy shop soon, the only thing left to do is signing and numbering the prints.

on matchbooks

For one of my recent projects I got to make matchbooks, blank matchbooks. I choose to make them rather than buying them because of the minimal quantity and the price of the purchase (50$ for 2500). So I settled for making matchbooks by hand. In fact I just had to make the cardboard cover because I was taking the matches themselves and the striking band from real matchbooks. While I was making them, I just thought about their potential as props and I began making plans for some nice color printed Gilman house matchbooks and other lovecraftian inspired ones. In a future post I will show how to make them and also put some lovecraftian matchbook designs, for now here is a photo of the blank ones I did.

 

 I also made some Marsh refinery stuff; I’m also working on more Innsmouth themed props and documents that I will put here soon.

pAmmican label

These are some alternate labels for pemmican blocks, complete with wrong orthograph, just like those that the starkweather moore expedition pick up in australia.