100 XIV
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00HCR8MP4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Like a jazz musician he riffs off the original work, constantly looking for new ideas hidden within the old, exploiting and mutating the formal aspects of the original design until a new clean, elegant artwork is born, a collge that combines the rigours of fashion and the freedom of art." -- Mutantspace
Grady Harp said 'We are all tied to our memories'. Opening the cover of this fascinatingly touching book of photographically manipulated art (if that is even an apt description?) is a journey into another place, a special place where fragments of memories intertwine to form pictures of the way our eyes may have encountered visions, moments, thoughts made ocular - things real, thin. So good. S. M. Johnson I love this book. Beautiful imagery, well thought out, lovely presentation. The type of book you keep forever, stored carefully. Reveals more with time. Full of surprises and good design.
Past becomes just as relevant as present, the future is yesterday. The book is a culmination of work, most of it recent, but going back as far as fourteen years. We are all tied to our memories.A $1 donation will be made to Visual Aids by the publisher for each printed copy of the book sold. Jerry Seguin is an artist and designer residing in the Bay Area of California. You are now, and so is the book in your hands. He's interested in the chemistry that happens when found images are altered or combined with other materials.As a collection, 100 XIV becomes a reflection of our own lives as much as it represents the artist's experience. The works are mixed media, mostly of objects and found images restructured. With the turn of each page you're confronted with a face, a situation, an object reinterpreted. "Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by pro