Lucy in the sky
It is no coincidence that this small book outwardly resembles a mobile phone, but it is a lucky coincidence that the title consists of twelve letters that can be arranged like a telephone keypad. They are embossed in shiny silver on small blind embossed squares. The invitation to
picture yourself from the famous Beatles song
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds gave me the idea of combining passages from the song with selfies of young women on the internet. My requirement was that you had to be able to see the smartphone that was used to take the picture; sometimes they also used cameras. One exception are the images on the double spreads where two sections come together in the book. There, you see close-up images of heads. The images were created on a computer, sometimes combined with 19th-century ornamentation. They were printed with polymer plates in letterpress printing. Unlike my
book of hours remake
from 2010, I also used the black printing plates here, so I needed four plates for each image. It is time-consuming and expensive to make polymer plates, even when you are doing it yourself – and especially if you need to use four plates per image. That gave me the idea of using the printing plates of the images several times with different colors, for instance printing the red plate in blue or the blue plate in yellow, etc. I found the results compelling, and it became a design principle for the book, with many of the motifs appearing more than once in different color combinations.
94 pages, uncoated paper, letterpress printed, embossed cardbord cover with cloth spine, 11.5 x 19 cm,
60 numbered and signed copies. Flörsheim 2013.