Description
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About this piece:
A square box with rounded corners that contains nine books made of digitally printed photos, coated with beeswax and assembled with rivets. Some photos are ancient and date back to the late 19th century. All have been reworked digitally.
I have been working for several years on round books and boxes. I also wanted to revisit the family album concept. This and my interest in family traits -my husband is a sleep researcher and does much work in genetics- led to a tic-tac-toe kind of box! Nine books take the reader through a time journey of two families from the early days of photography to current times.
Materials:
paper, ink, beeswax, rivets, wood, book board, foil
About the artist:
Lives and works in Palo Alto, CA.
A French native, Servane first came to California in 1985 before completing her studies in New York and Milan. Since then, she has lived in San Francisco, Paris, and Palo Alto. She worked in various fields and made a radical move from high tech to printmaking and book arts in 2006. She was an artist in residence at the Cubberley Artist Studio Program in Palo Alto, California for eight years and recently moved her studio to San Francisco.
