Cumulus - Guy Archard

SPECS

* 148 mm x 210mm
* 19 indavidul giclee images
* Concertina binding 
*ISBN 978-1-9998490-3-0
*Publication date Aug 2022
*Paper GF Smith
Slip case by Dot Studio
*Printed and finished by L&S

To be a cloud; a photograph. Droplets hovering on air, softening into paper. Both are symbols of mobility, dreams and mood. Both visual delights with a tousled history of allegory and wonder, ever-changing, everywhere.

Archard uses different methods of copying and printing on textured paper to fragment and distort each cloud’s personality, sometimes letting the ink run out as reflection on instability and a gradual decline into disorder.

The book folds out concertina-style to reveal nineteen panels of individual giclee prints tipped-in without glue. Clouds shapeshift from swollen greys to lithe beiges and flush pinks, their size and orientation also fluctuating with each page-turn.