Description
About this piece:
Stained is a collaborative book of word and image, pigment and fiber, documenting the emotional experience—bright lightness, dark depths—and reckoning of motherhood.
Stained features three different ways to be in conversation with the work and subject matter: letterpress printed text that one can read; a series of photographic images and unique monoprints which one can view; and sections of embroidered handmade paper which one can touch, feel. Apart, each method and material offers a window into motherhood, a perspective of thought, experience. Woven together, they comprise the dance, the imperfect balance, of what it is to be a mother.
Text, photographic collages, letterpress printing and binding by Camden M. Richards. Monotypes pulled in counterpoint to the text and photographs by Deborah Sibony. Handmade paper by Patti Harden.
Stained consists of eight unique monotypes designed and pulled on Rives BFK 250gsm at Studio 1509 by Sibony on a Takach press. Photographic collages created by Richards and inkjet printed on Canson Vidalon Vellum 90gsm at Minuteman Press on an Epson Stylus Pro 9600. Text set in Zuzana Licko’s
Mrs. Eaves; written, designed and letterpress printed by Richards at Liminal Press + Bindery on a Vandercook 4 proofing press. Handmade paper with inclusions by Harden. Stained is bound with a buttonhole stitch and is housed in a custom box with hand painted book cloth. Box construction by John DeMerritt.
Materials:
paper, ink, thread, floss, book cloth,
About the artist:
Lives and works in Sonoma, California
Camden M. Richards is a California-based designer and book artist. Her books and prints and are held in public, library and private collections. Camden holds degrees from Boston College and the Corcoran College of Art + Design at George Washington University. In addition to publishing under her Liminal Press + Bindery imprint, she teaches workshops at local venues and public schools and works as a graphic designer for non profit and B corporation clients. She previously served as adjunct faculty and interim director of the graduate book art program at Mills College at Northeastern University.
