Sing with a Lovely Voice (Artist Book)
- Date:
- 2007
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga, digital print, handmade artist book
- Dimensions:
- 35.6 × 24.8 cm
- Image courtesy of
- Cade Tompkins Projects
Sing with a Lovely Voice is a handmade artist book combining mokuhanga (Japanese-method woodblock printing) with digital print, produced in 2007. The title — drawn from a literary or scriptural source — signals the project's lyrical register, distinct from the documentary portraiture of the contemporaneous Amman and Istanbul Portfolios. Mokuhanga's water-based pigments and absorbent [washi](/glossary/washi) yield soft tonal transitions and matte surfaces that sit comfortably alongside digitally printed text, allowing image and language to share a single page without one overwhelming the other. The codex format invites sequential reading and turns the act of looking into something closer to listening: each opening reveals a paired image and passage rather than a freestanding picture. Made the year after Heyman's first trip to Amman to interview former Abu Ghraib detainees, the book reflects his continuing interest in voice and testimony, but moves the work from the gallery wall into an intimate, hand-held object. It also marks his sustained engagement with hybrid printmaking — combining a traditional Japanese technique with contemporary digital tools — that runs through much of his RISD-era studio practice.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
c. 1837/42
Color woodblock print; chuban
Sing with a Lovely Voice (Artist Book) was created by Daniel Heyman in 2007.
Sing with a Lovely Voice (Artist Book) depicts literary.
Sing with a Lovely Voice (Artist Book) measures 35.6 × 24.8 cm.
