
Ephemera
by Karen Kunc
- Date:
- 2009
- Medium:
- Artist book - 11 pages, accordion structure with gatefold center spread; bound into covered boards with decorative woodcut printed paper and end sheets, goatskin spine Japanese Nishinouchi handmade kozo paper
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
Ephemera stands open in an accordion fold, its pages fanned to reveal three distinct compositions against a neutral gray backdrop. The left panel is covered in overlapping blue, gold, and orange ovals over a fine grid texture; the wide center spread shows irregular white and gray rounded forms—some ringed in orange, one bearing a small printed text passage—set against a mottled dark teal ground; the right panel depicts a grid of small yellow, cream, and gray rectangles suggesting windows on a textured gray field, with a single red square breaking the pattern. Bound in covered boards with a goatskin spine and printed decorative paper, the book's woodcut imagery moves from organic, cell-like clusters to a built, architectural grid across its folds.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ephemera was created by Karen Kunc in 2009.
Ephemera depicts literary.



