WINNERS

Artist Book: Toi & Moi - Couches D’amour

  • Photographer
    Natalia Rudychev, United States
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Zines And Photo Book/Other

Toi & Moi is handprinted. It combines cyanotype prints of floral designs with cyanotype prints of my haiku poems. Roland Barthes compared photograph to haiku, "In both cases we might (we must) speak of an intense immobility, linked to a detail (to a detonator) .. neither the Haiku nor the Photograph makes us "dream"." The book is hand sewn & bound by me. The plants were collected in the Bois de Boulogne, pressed for 3 weeks and used to create abstract designs exposed as cyanotypes. Haiku were written on transparencies, then exposed as cyanotypes. 12.6 x 10.6 inches Media: canvas Unique