{"id":10653,"date":"2016-05-29T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:46:37","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-amy-borezo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/29\/book-artist-of-the-month-amy-borezo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Amy Borezo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SomeLines-AmyBorezo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For the final installment in my month-long interview with Amy Borezo<\/a>, I am featuring an artist book she made in 2013\/14. Some Lines<\/em><\/a> was printed and bound in an edition of 40 copies. The first twenty copies were printed and bound by graduate students at the University of Dallas while Amy was a visiting artist; the remaining twenty copies were printed and bound by Amy with the last 5 copies bound in a deluxe edition.<\/p>\n

Some Lines<\/em> is bound as an accordion binding and housed in a cloth presentation box.<\/p>\n

Something that I enjoy about your work is the complexity behind the clean and simple imagery you employ. Can you talk about the concept behind Some Lines<\/em> and the swift timeframe in which this book was first printed?
\n<\/strong>I was doing research for another artist\u2019s book on Artificial Intelligence. I am interested in distilling complex ideas down into their most basic form. AI is incredibly complex, but most teaching around it starts with Aristotle\u2019s Categories<\/em> in which he attempts to classify everything into a few simplified categories (substance, bodies, living bodies, animals, man). AI is doing something similar–teaching a computer how to classify everything that can be classified. From Aristotle\u2019s classification system, the first branching tree information diagrams emerged. The Porphyrian Tree is a diagram of Aristotle\u2019s Categories<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"SomeLines1-AmyBorezo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I worked with the Porphyrian Tree diagram for a while and it wasn\u2019t quite coalescing into a book. In my research I also came across another early branching diagram that showed the geneology of Christ. I was fascinated by this diagram because it contained a narrative within it, a story. I was also interested in how diagrams are often used to represent a viewpoint, not necessarily a fact. Data can be manipulated in its presentation. Those are some of the ideas behind Some Lines<\/em>. I am also interested in the idea of drawing through time, a concept I explored in Labor\/Movement<\/em><\/a>. The roundels in the diagram each represent a person and most are linked by a line to another roundel through either birth or marriage. In this way, the geneology diagram represents a drawing made through generations.<\/p>\n

I designed the book to be printed and bound in an edition of 40 in 4 days<\/span><\/span> during a residency at the University of Dallas. I had graduate students in printmaking helping with the printing and binding. We only ended up completing half of the edition there and I bound the second half in my studio. I didn\u2019t know when designing the book that the University of Dallas is a Catholic university. It was a great experience to create that work there and have discussions with students about the concept.<\/p>\n

\"SomeLines2-AmyBorezo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Within the description of Some Lines<\/em> on your website, you mention an interest in AI (artificial intelligence). With the growing focus and development with AI and virtual reality, I am wondering if you plan to incorporate this topic into a future artist\u2019s book?
\n<\/strong>I might go back to AI in another work. I do have a partially finished artist\u2019s book *in my mind* around this concept. But then again, it might be time to move on. I am not sure yet. I am quite interested in science fiction as a genre, as I\u2019ve mentioned before, as I think it\u2019s an extremely useful lens through which to examine the present. I love allegory. But of course, AI is no longer science fiction–it\u2019s already here. Maybe that\u2019s why I am not as interested in it as much right now! There usually needs to be a sense for me that a subject is fresh for examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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