• Paper Towels / Zoe Sheehan Saldana
Paper Towels / Zoe Sheehan Saldana Paper Towels / Zoe Sheehan Saldana

Paper Towels / Zoe Sheehan Saldana

Objects

FA.OSS4.0625.a-b
Fine Art Collection
exterior wrapping: 25.4 x 10 cm; paper towel: 22.8 x 8.5 cm
2009
Center for Book Arts Workspace Artist-in-Residence 2008
Steve Orlando
Dieu Donne, Center for Book Arts
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
Conceptual, blind embossing
2 copies of paper towel (2nd towel #9 in an edition of 30); one of paper towel holder. Number 8 in an Edition of 130; signed and dated by the artist. Very close facsimile of a commercially designed paper towel; housed in brown paper and tied with handmade jute twine. Materials consist of pigmented cotton paper, linen paper, gum arabic and glue. The paper towel has been embossed with pressure print of a repeating dot pattern. Paper made at Dieu Donne paper mill, and printed at the Center for Book Arts. This work is accompanied by a commercially-produced paper towel dispenser, in which Saldana's paper towel is meant to be displayed.