Daniel Essig

Bridge Book: Blackheart , 2020

 
20 x 12 x 8 in

Daniel Essig: "Dolph Smith [Professor Emeritus at Memphis College of Art where he instituted a Hand Papermaking and Book Arts program] helped push me beyond the simple Ethiopian book. He was making sculptural books by hanging paper from wooden structures, and I tracked him down and ultimately studied with him. Under his influence I developed my bridge books, which use the same Coptic binding but exaggerate each of the elements: the covers become elongated into two-foot-long towers that stand on a tabletop, and rather than 10 or 12 signatures in the text block, I use 100 to 200, well over 1000 pages.

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