"At last winter is finished and, from the ground where a seed has dropped, a vertical green blade appears. The sun starts to make itself felt and the green shoots grow. It is a tree, but so small no one recognizes it yet. Little by little it grows though. It begins to branch, buds germinate on its branches, other branches spring from the buds, other leaves from the branches, and so on. A few years later, that green blade will have become a fine trunk covered in boughts. Later still, it will have produced wide branches which will produce leaves, blossoms and fruit. In autumn it will screech its seeds around, and some will fall beneath it while others will be carried far away by the wind. Almost everywhere a seed falls, a new tree will grow." (Munari, Bruno. Drawing a Tree. Montova: Corraini, 2012)
This book was done for the collective exhibition of Artist´s Books "alive natures: from the seeds, the birds and the fruits" performed at the Artistic and Professional School Árvore and the Cooperative Árvore from Oporto, may 2013.
The book had as main references the books: La tripologia del Limite from Suzy Lee (Corraini, 2012), about the importance of the limits of pages as an element of the narrative and the difference meanings of it in her books, and the book "Drawing a Tree" from Bruno Munari (Corraini, 2012), insert on the 4 books dedicated to the artist´s workshops, where is explored different techniques and different ways of interpret an image, suggesting adults and children to work together.
Image Book is a study book, a graphic diary with the intention of explore the stain and the limit of the pages. There are graphic moments registered, moments of thinking where the stain is interpreted, highlighting the infinite side of possibilities. The limit of pages is also referred as an element of discovering and as an element of the narrative, showing different ways of reading it.
Therefore, we are in front of a book of though, that starting with a point, it is developed a number of possibilities that enables a richer and bigger image, understanding this open field of answers, possible through the imagination.
The book starts with a stain, that can be a seed, a tree or even a pea. Turning the pages, the stains are transformed and get a new meaning. What is the meaning of the seed, the tree and the limit of the page? What can arise from similar stains? An infinity of possibilities, and with this perception we open new imagination´s and narrative´s fields.
The book had as main references the books: La tripologia del Limite from Suzy Lee (Corraini, 2012), about the importance of the limits of pages as an element of the narrative and the difference meanings of it in her books, and the book "Drawing a Tree" from Bruno Munari (Corraini, 2012), insert on the 4 books dedicated to the artist´s workshops, where is explored different techniques and different ways of interpret an image, suggesting adults and children to work together.
Image Book is a study book, a graphic diary with the intention of explore the stain and the limit of the pages. There are graphic moments registered, moments of thinking where the stain is interpreted, highlighting the infinite side of possibilities. The limit of pages is also referred as an element of discovering and as an element of the narrative, showing different ways of reading it.
Therefore, we are in front of a book of though, that starting with a point, it is developed a number of possibilities that enables a richer and bigger image, understanding this open field of answers, possible through the imagination.
The book starts with a stain, that can be a seed, a tree or even a pea. Turning the pages, the stains are transformed and get a new meaning. What is the meaning of the seed, the tree and the limit of the page? What can arise from similar stains? An infinity of possibilities, and with this perception we open new imagination´s and narrative´s fields.
2013
