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of the whole, as the future spirals vaguely towards us from
one direction and the past disappears into obscurity in the
other? Printed on transparent paper with hardcover,
22 cm W x 31 cm H, handmade, limited-edition book.
Ideo(t) Grammatica
To demonstrate that a sentence could be grammatically
correct but meaningless, Noam Chomsky proposed the
sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” But of what,
we might wonder, do they dream? This book traces this
language dreaming where normal grammar takes a rest.
But what awakens in its place? What idiocy lies that way?
Archival digital prints, 18 cm W x 26 cm H, handmade,
hardcover, section-sewn, limited-edition book.
37PEACES — the Puzzle of an Epiphany
The pages of this book map fragments of the landscape
of an image. Like reading a street directory, the reader can
connect other, larger ongoing features across this image,
navigating to the point where all the pieces might finally
make sense. Archival digital prints, 19 cm W x 29 cm H,
handmade, hardcover, section-sewn, limited-edition book.
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Heat and Dust, New work from Ambeck Design
Danish Book artist and designer, Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck
would like to announce the upcoming release of a new lasercut
edition, extending the fruitful collaboration with artist
Tom Sowden which began with her 2010 UWE residency.
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Image by Ambeck used in the book
Entitled ‘Dust To Dust’ the piece continues Ambeck’s
combination of photographic imagery and laser-engraving
facilitated by Sowden - as first seen in ‘Day Return’(2010).
After the abstraction of the earlier piece, however, this
new work draws from a long-term archive of Ambeck’s
photography created amongst the curious, shadowed
pathways and tombs of Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke
Newington, North London.
Traditional crafts of stone carving and masonry meet the
futuristic possibilities of computer-programmed laser
technology to memorable effect in this intriguing piece,
produced with Ambeck’s typical attention to detail and keen
observational skills. The book looks both to the past and the
future.
The book will be produced in a limited edition of ten and
comes in a sturdy hand-made box, signed by the artist and
carrying additional text information on the circumstances
and provenance of the piece.
Ambeck will be in attendance with this - and other new
work - at the 2012 Whitechapel Gallery London Art Book
Fair and Small Publishers Fair, London this autumn (see
Internet or BAN for details).
See also http://www.ambeckdesign.blogspot.com
Doverodde
Twenty short prose pieces, illustrated with photographs.
Nancy Campbell, Bird Editions, Oxford, 2012
Doverodde shelters in an oxbow on the Limfjord, a glacial
channel separating North Jutland from mainland Denmark.
Nancy Campbell was writer in residence in Doverodde
during the month leading up to the Doverodde Book Arts
Festival in May 2012. The location lay behind the choice
of theme for the Festival: On The Margins (or ‘Udkant’
in Danish).