Entropic Oscillations, A Weather Story
Orinda, California: Donna Day Westerman, N.D. Westerman, Donna Day. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Number 16 of 20, tall, thin quarto size, five folded leaves, signed by the artist. fine. Item #CNDDW02
Limited edition, number 16 of 20. Donna Day Westerman is a printmaker and painter in the Bay Area of California. [She is] "interested in traditional and historical media — particularly, woodcuts, wood-engravings and egg tempera — used in a contemporary manner. Working from close observation, and occasionally referring to [her] own photographs, [she] conceptually reduce[s] realistic nature to calligraphic or glyph-like notations. A kind of erasure takes place as the visual abundance... is distilled into the essence of the place. Other senses, such as sound and touch often inform the visual... A challenge... has been to capture the powerful ephemeral forms of fog and water in the hard-edged medium of wood... the medium itself determines much of the outcome." (N.B., "Artist's Statement" from web site of the Artist.) The present volume is themed around a "weather story" with abstracted diagrams showing the interconnectedness of the earth; as the Artist says in the colophon, "A large high pressure system settles over the great plain of China bordered by the Himalayas. This high sets up a series of highs and lows that oscillate over the northern Pacific determining the wind direction at the West Coast."
***DESCRIPTION: Original handmade blue-gray paper covered boards, pictorial title strip laid onto upper board, backstrip opens so the accordion style format can be displayed in a connected elongated format, single-panel wood engraving with silk screen overlays, in six colors 4" x 20", Arches 88 paper, 12" x 4" when closed, five folded leaves including title-page and colophon, limited edition, number 16 of 20, signed by Donna Day Westerman.
***CONDITION: A fine copy, no flaws to the paper covers, leaves are bright, rich impression, a fine copy signed and numbered by Donna Day Westerman; acquired by us new directly from the Artist.
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Price: $500.00