{"id":8905,"date":"2014-12-08T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:03:28","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/08\/book-artist-of-the-month-sarah-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Sarah Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2010, Sarah Bryant<\/a> completed Biography<\/em>, which\u00a0explores of the alternative roles played by the chemical elements found in the human body.\u00a0Each element is represented as a specific colored rectangle, which are used in various diagrams throughout the book. As you progress through the book the diagrams become less clear and are interrupted with blind stamped organic shapes. Biography<\/em> won the 2011 Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize<\/a> in addition to receiving the Award for Artistic Excellence at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair<\/a> in late 2010.<\/p>\n

Printed in an edition of 75 using letterpress techniques from polymer plates on Zerkall Book, Biography<\/em> was bound as a hardcover drum leaf enclosed in a clamshell box. Numbers one through ten\u00a0are bound as a deluxe edition (pictured above), which include\u00a0additional prints from the book, as well as a ghost print creating during the printing process. The deluxe edition comes in a larger clamshell box designed to house both the book and set of prints.<\/p>\n

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In The Bonefolder<\/em><\/a> article Evolution of an Artist\u2019s Book<\/a><\/em>, you mention that Biography<\/em><\/a> took 2 years to complete. The inspiration led to extensive research and preparation before embarking on months of printing. Is this an average amount of time needed to complete a project?
\n<\/strong>Most of my big books take about two years. Dave and I first conceived of Figure Study<\/em><\/a> in January of 2013 and I have set a release date to coincide with the Codex Book Fair and Symposium<\/a> in February of 2015. I started working on Fond<\/em><\/a> when I was at Wells College in early 2011 and released it in the fall of 2012. Two years seems to be my average these days. But in the background there are other things emerging. While the larger projects are proceeding at their slow pace, I am working on quicker, smaller things. A book I printed with Shift-lab<\/a>, a collaboration between myself, Katie Baldwin, Denise Bookwalter, and Tricia Treacy took me about six months in 2013. Simulations on a Two-Dimensional Grid<\/em><\/a>, a book I created for the Ideation by Chance show at the Seager Gray Gallery<\/a> in Mill Valley, California, took me a few months. Those books were done in smaller editions and in response to external collaborations and deadlines.<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019m not a printmaker, the printing process behind You are part of something larger than yourself<\/em><\/a> is puzzling to me. Can you walk me through the printing steps for this particular print?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aha! Yes I can. And, in fact, if you really<\/em> want to know more about it, a lecture I gave at Wells college several years ago contains a detailed description of that process, with photos! Thanks to Peter Verheyen, you can find it on youtube here:
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