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Out of the Woods exhibition. Nick Mobbs and Serena Smith at Leicester Print Workshop, 2018



Under the Sun – a manuscript

Bookwork of hand-coloured stone lithographs with letterpress text, printed onto Hahnemuhle 230g etching paper, case bound with letterpress cover, closed dimensions 39 x 53 cm. Drawn, printed, bound and published by the artist in an edition of 5, 2018.

peel, flake, scratch, suture, pinch, bleed, scrape, rend, scorch, pluck, graze, bristle, incise, wrinkle, cut, stretch, pierce, bruise, stroke, burn, puncture, split, scarify, brush, shave, tan, wound, crease, fold, stitch, cover, clothe

Designed to accommodate six centrefold images, The letterpress text relates to both the production of a codex book work - from the skinning of an animal to the stitching and binding - and the visceral experience of living within skin. The ‘skin’ depicted in the images, is that of tree bark from the woodland behind my home. Whilst the work is intentionally seductive, underwriting the aesthetic sensibility, is a vulnerability to exposure ‘under the sun’. Embedded in the work are the drawn gestures from an inscribing hand that has the capacity to both stroke this skin and cut through its fragile membrane.  There is both light and darkness under this sun


 









Manuscript 1

Manuscript 2

Manuscript 3
   
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