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Description of the work is courtesy of the artist:
See No Evil: Moth is a drawing and text work in the form of a diary, created by a fictive, anxious, urban person whose life span straddles the 20th and 21st centuries. Each book shows a shaded side of the self; and the text is a litany of questions, complaints and mini-epiphanies. Hundreds of digitized colored pencil drawings are scattered throughout the edition, all reproductions from Albertus Seba’s 1731 “Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.” As typical of a cabinet of curiosities, Seba aimed to present an encyclopedic view of all knowledge by empirical firsthand knowledge of specimens. Criteria for assembling and taxonomies were often subjective, favoring oddities, and occasionally faux and unnatural history. Wortzel’s playful re-renderings of these specimens are distributed through an algorithm in each book, resulting in randomized, unique placements throughout the text that block out passages around the images, offering different “reads” in each of the twenty volumes. SEE NO EVIL also has an augmented reality (AR) component – 20 of the 165 drawings in the book are AR targets – where animations come to life in an accompanying device where the AR app is installed. This work was presented at Daily Ritual at the Center for Book Arts in 2022, and Art Technology Psyche: AR Artists’ Books Symposium at the Harvard Fine Arts Library in 2023.
Production Details:
8.5 X 11 in
208 pages
165 drawings Hardcover
Cover material: Iris cloth
Paper inner: 100#T Cougar Opaque Handsewn signatures
Bookmark tassels
4/4 digital offset printing Samsung Galaxy Tablet
Colophon:
Edition of 20 + 2 AP
Written by Adrianne Wortzel
Drawings by Adrianne Wortzel
Bound at Small Editions by Sarah Nicholls
Coded by Grace Poetzinger
Lasercut by Free-Fall Laser
AR Augmentation by Jeff Crouse 2021
Photography by Arden Sklar
Detail images of the work
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