{"id":8011,"date":"2014-05-12T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:10:10","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-roni-gross-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/book-artist-of-the-month-roni-gross-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Roni Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SayingsOfTheBlind3-RoniGross\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sayings of the Blind<\/em><\/a> is an artist book by Roni Gross<\/a> that includes the poem of the same name (see below)\u00a0from the prolific William Stafford. The book unfolds to reveal a hand-drawn and letterpress printed topographical map, which interprets the world of the blind.<\/p>\n

Bound in 2010 in an edition of 50,\u00a0Sayings of the Blind<\/em> is part of the Stafford Collection<\/a>, a curated collection organized by the 23 Sandy Gallery<\/a>. The Stafford Collection includes any work that incorporate the poetry of William Stafford and\/or Kim Stafford.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SAYINGS OF THE BLIND — William Stafford
\nFeeling is believing.
\nMountains don’t exist. But their slopes do.
\nLittle people have low voices.
\nAll things, even the rocks, make a little noise.
\nThe silence back of all sound is called “the sky.”
\nThere’s a big stranger in town called the sun.
\nHe doesn’t speak to us but puts out a hand.
\nNight opens a door into a cellar–
\nyou can smell it coming.
\nOn Sundays everyone stands farther apart.
\nVelvet feels black.
\nMeeting cement is never easy.
\nWhat do they mean when they say night is gloomy?
\nEdison didn’t invent much.
\nNames have a flavor.<\/p>\n

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The poem by William Stafford is plotted across the topographical map in such an ingenious way. What is the correlation between the map graphic and the text from the poem?
\n<\/strong>After many mockups, most more complicated than the final book, I realized that the topographical map is referring to the landscape of the blind. It is a different landscape than seeing people are aware of, and by placing the text within it, we are taking you into that world.<\/p>\n

\"SayingsOfTheBlind4-RoniGross\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The texture of Suminagashi wonderfully reflects the shapes of a topographic map, was this your intention?
\n<\/strong>I did realize that the Suminagashi was a nice parallel to the lines of the map without revealing too much from the beginning. I commissioned the paper from Yukari Hayashida, who teaches a class in Suminagashi at CBA (The Center for Book Arts<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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