After Image
Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen
The second volume in the colour series – inspired by Renaissance thinkers, Victorian children’s book creators, Russian avant-gardists, and German applied artists – is a three-dimensional playground of 16 models and assemblages that can be moved, folded, shifted and spun.
The book – written, designed and set by Barbara Hodgson – is uniform in format to The Temperamental Rose. Printed at Black Stone Press in two colours on Arches watercolour and handmade papers. Copies were bound in half leather with gold tooling over paste papers by Claudia Cohen. Each copy comes in a clamshell box, along with a three-dimensional construction made from a design by papermaker Reg Lissel on Lissel’s own coloured handmade paper, and a hand-lathed wood spinning top required for several of the constructs. Issued in two states (see details below). 8vo, 40 pp. HM Editions 2009
The first eight copies form a deluxe issue, including an original sketch page bound in, and accompanied by a multi-hued booklet made from translucent Cromatica papers with patterns cut into the papers to produce an extensive palette, as the effect of overlayering of the various colours changes with each turn of the page.