Last year was the first year since I began making books that I didn’t attend a handmade book fair. But happily the Fine Press Book Association blog has been reporting on many of the ones I missed. Recently they posted the juror awards from the biannual Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair last November. The winner of the Award for Artistic Excellence was Sarah Bryant and her book Biography. She says
“Biography” is an exploration of the chemical elements in the human body and the roles they play elsewhere in the world… Each spread is a diagram describing the elements as they exist on the periodic table, the earth’s crust, a variety of man-made weapons, medicines and tools, sea water, etc. Each element is identified as a specific colored rectangle and these rectangles continue through the diagrams. These diagrams sometimes difficult to decode, and toward the end are interrupted by blind stamped organic shapes and pressure printing.
The letterpress printing in the spread on above looks intriguing! She also sells the folios as prints. Take a look at her website and etsy shop.