• Brocade in the Dark of Night / Brad Freeman
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Brocade in the Dark of Night / Brad Freeman

Books

FA.B108.2170
Fine Art Collection
10 x 11.75 in; 25.4 x 30 cm
2015
Brad Freeman
offset printing
Offset printed on the Heidelberg GTO at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. Bound in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. 32 pages. Signed and numbered. "The title, Brocade in the Dark of Night, comes from a phrase in The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: 'Autumn leaves that fall in the mountains, with no one to see them, are like brocade in the dark of night.' To me this phrase embodies the often melancholic and dark images of the book. "I offset printed the cover and endsheets on Astrobright Black paper with metallic inks. This was a direct intervention on the press, as I could not create the images completely in the digital realm. There is no way to predict the exact effect of metallic inks on the computer. Only on the press, with ink on paper, will the true results occur. "The book is case bound with the signature sewn to a hinge which is glued into the spine. This binding allows for a book that lies perfectly flat. "I took all the photographs, offset printed the sheets on a Heidelberg GTO (eine farben), and bound all the books by hand." -- artist's statement