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Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers [Design Binding].
St. Paul, MN; Muir Beach, CA: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020/2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "My design endeavors to create 'Bokeh': the aesthetic quality of the soft blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Things may be seen in focus, but memories are often a reverie.
Shanilec told me that while he was working with the photographs of flowers: "I became fixated with the blurred parts of the images, and the shapes that were formed there. Though the central flowers in the engravings are in focus, I paid as much if not more attention to the out of focus territory in the images. Thinking about it now, l suppose our lives, in retrospect, become a blur in our minds, except perhaps certain snap shots that retain some clarity, though I have read that memories are conjured up fresh each time we recall them-they tend to morph over time-so their accuracy becomes questionable. I have no problem with the idea that the bokeh may be a metaphor for a larger concept. I would consider that a winner." [artist statement]. Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Hand dyed kangaroo leather sewn on 5 cords and boards laced on, edge-to-edge leather doublures of kangaroo leather, layers of leather treatments include image transfer, multiple dye applications, resist techniques, gold leaf, palladium leaf, and mark making, silk embroidered end bands, gold leaf lettering at spine, suede fiyleaves; housed in a custom clamshell box with a drawer containing the 8 editioned numbered and signed prints and marble paper from the edition. 8vo. 58pp plus plate pages. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 83 of 94 from a total edition of 120. Second suite of plates included. Item #12302
Price: $6,500.00