Flexible.
Wait, Laura.
Steamboat Springs, CO: 2010. Unique artist's book, one of a series of six, each different but inspired by chess and the war strategy of Sun Tzu., all on BFK Rives paper, signed by the artist / author / binder, Laura Wait. The other titles in this series are Relentless, Adaptable, Elusive, Mysterious, and Insistent. Page size: 5-3/4 x 15 inches; 46pp. Bound by the artist: hand sewn on linen cords with linen thread, wood boards laced onto cords, boards stamped with collograph plate used in the books, then painted with acrylic to refer to a page in the books, and varnished with clear acrylic; onlaid copper pieces based on chess pieces used in the book with patinated surface, lacquered and attached with brass tacks, housed in custom-made felt-lined clamshell box with title and artist on spine label. The painted pages are mixed media and including handwriting as well as painting, collographs, and hand stamps based on the chess sets of Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp and Ms. Wait's own eight pawns. (Item ID: 10320)
$4,500.00
