Fragmentos de Lluvia.
Canto Press, 2021. Item #3828
Concertina book in paper wrappers, 14 x 20 in. 30 pp, with handmade paper, letterpress, foil stamping, and silk thread.
María Carolina Ceballos is a Colombian book artist and paper conservator, publishing under the imprint Canto Press.
This work is a graphic score and an artists’ book written for solo voice, choir, and paper instruments. From the artist’s statement on her website:
“The piece is related to my roots of a city with constant rain—Bogotá—[as well as] oral and gold figures in indigenous peoples’ traditions, myths of mountain ranges, percussive rhythms and melodies coming from the soundscape. This book is a score for performing, a poem that sometimes is just for the reader and won’t be performed…”
“The book is, too, a comment on my hand papermaking experience. All the imagery was made with pulp stencil, embedded silk thread, pulp painting and pochoir, with the text and annotations letterpress printed from photopolymer plates. [...] It has inclusions of handmade paper and embedded silk thread, and tabs on the fore edge to help reading, made with handmade Japanese paper and foil stamping.”
Ceballos notes also that the size of the book evokes larger-scale choir scores from the Middle Ages, and the binding structure was designed to specifically accommodate the variety of paper elements within.
Ceballos’s work is invested in multilingual writing, music notation and performance, and innovation within the realm of traditional book arts. She is a graduate of the MFA in Book Arts at the University of Iowa, and worked at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá as a conservator. This book won the Holle Award for excellence in the Book Arts at the University of Alabama.
This is from an edition of 6 copies. There was also an edition of 3 deluxe copies for multiple performers that is out of print.
Enclosure has a few small bumps, else fine. The book itself is as new.
Photographs are courtesy of the artist (enclosure box is not pictured); additional photographs available upon request.
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