Blueprints

Résumé du livre

An unusual addition to the body of Kunc's work, this book demonstrates the artist's accustomed graphic style, but moves the image representation toward further abstraction while anchoring the message through spare but purposeful text. The funnel pictured on the front cover suggests the self (or perhaps self/ego relationship), a large opening through which the onslaught of thought and experience can be channeled into a usable container. Kunc simulates, through her material, the construction of artistic and personal meanings that can lead to the inherent and expressed power of one's own voice. Symbols and text are overprinted onto screened images from drawings and appropriated mechanical and construction diagrams. Screen and letterpress printed with hand coloring on waxed, earth-colored, handmade paper from Bangladesh. The sensuous waxed surfaces of the papers are luminous and delicate, while the waxing makes the sheet more durable and translucent, adding to both the tactile quality of the work and the experience of reading.