News Cycle, 2019
with Sarah Smith
9 x 9 x 3 cm
This multiplex carousel structure - a Continuously Convoluting Carousel - is the first of its kind, and features artwork by printer, illustrator, and book artist Sarah Smith of Olfactory Gleanings. It can be inverted on itself indefinitely, revealing a sequence of four different hidden openings or displays. A variation on the Jacob’s Ladder toy, the Continuously Convoluting Carousel employs the same double-action hinges that gave the original toy its characteristically illusive motion.
News Cycle is a book commenting on our reactions to the news. Through the operation of the book, five groups of people express four different emotions—apathetic, shocked, angry and elated. The cycle continues indefinitely as the viewer manipulates the book and the people experience the news. The images were drawn in pen and ink and then printed with photopolymer plates.
Museum board, Cheloniidae Rag paper, and Hahnemuhle Bugra paper. Created 2019.
with Sarah Smith
9 x 9 x 3 cm
This multiplex carousel structure - a Continuously Convoluting Carousel - is the first of its kind, and features artwork by printer, illustrator, and book artist Sarah Smith of Olfactory Gleanings. It can be inverted on itself indefinitely, revealing a sequence of four different hidden openings or displays. A variation on the Jacob’s Ladder toy, the Continuously Convoluting Carousel employs the same double-action hinges that gave the original toy its characteristically illusive motion.
News Cycle is a book commenting on our reactions to the news. Through the operation of the book, five groups of people express four different emotions—apathetic, shocked, angry and elated. The cycle continues indefinitely as the viewer manipulates the book and the people experience the news. The images were drawn in pen and ink and then printed with photopolymer plates.
Museum board, Cheloniidae Rag paper, and Hahnemuhle Bugra paper. Created 2019.