Clemens Brentano, Wenn der lahme Weber träumt er webe
The book is exclusively devoted to a poem by Clemens Brentano. What especially fascinated me about this famous poem was the contrast between dream and painful awakening. The image material (portraits of sleeping people and people with open eyes) comes from the internet; it was edited in Photoshop and printed with polymer plates using the four-color printing process. Thus four plates had to be made for each portrait, one for each color. However, the individual colors are not printed on top of each other on one page. The transparent glassine paper made it possible to distribute the four colors across four pages. The blue plate is printed on he front of the first page, and the yellow plate on the reverse; the red plate is printed on the front of the second page, and the black on its reverse. Thus each image is distributed among four pages (two sheets) of the book. On the one hand, the reader has the option of seeing the individual colors that make up the four-color image; on the other hand, the paper’s transparency and translucency also allows the overlaid colors to be seen all at once. Two lines of Brentano’s poem, printed on the same glassine paper, lie between the color portrait pages. In a certain sense, they also serve as separating pages between the pictures.
58 pages, glassine paper, handset, letterpress printed, booklet with printed glassine cover, in printed slipcase, 12.5/18 cm,
42 numbered and signed copies. Flörsheim 2015.