Sample Book IV
by Yuko Kimura
- Date:
- 2016
- Medium:
- Etching, aquatint, indigo pigment on worm eaten book pages from Japan and handmade paper (abaca, gampi, kozo), paper thread and shifu
- Image courtesy of
- Artsy
Description
An open book lies against a black background, its two facing pages printed in indigo. The left page, on cream, deckle-edged paper, bears a network of thin branching lines resembling roots or cracks radiating from the lower edge upward; the right page is saturated in dark indigo with a dense, mottled scatter of lighter blue-green speckling, its worn, deckled edge visible along the bottom and right. Sample Book IV, by Yuko Kimura (2016), is an etching and aquatint in indigo pigment worked onto worm-eaten Japanese book pages and handmade abaca, gampi, and kozo paper, bound with paper thread and shifu.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Sample Book IV was created by Yuko Kimura in 2016.
Sample Book IV uses Etching, on etching, aquatint, indigo pigment on worm eaten book pages from japan and handmade paper (abaca, gampi, kozo), paper thread and shifu.