Mateo Ruiz González
Reclaimed wood book box
12x16"
Archival pigment prints on 8.5x11" and 13x19"
Paper stocks:
150gsm Awagami Konzo Natural Paper
150gsm Awagami Konzo White Paper
290gsm Hahnemuhle Bamboo Natural White
Dark green book cloth back cover
Book made during the Penumbra Foundation Long Term Program: The Photobook, for a Federico Clavarino assigment. The images in the sequence -- originally made with a 4x5 field camera -- belong to a bigger body of work from the artist titled Flowers of Friendship, and are the result of a "frame within the frame" excercise. The original photographs were printed on bamboo paper and placed on a light box, later covered with a Japanese Kozo paper to then be photographed again. The wooden structure represents the artist house as a creative and safe space for his practice.
Text by Gui.tar. House full of time from their album Sunkissed
Edition of 1 / Published in 2024