Wanting Sounds
Wanting Sounds is an artist’s book of text and image featuring a poem written in lipstick prints, a visual language inspired by Bob Cobbing’s ‘The Five Vowels’.
For Wanting Sounds, pressing mouth to paper, I made lipstick marks to transcribe every negative view ever expressed to me about my bisexuality, and reconstitute this material as a visual poem. These expressions of hostility now form a poetic catalogue of verbal-visual traces.
Wanting Sounds uses this approach to transcription to repeat its source materials without amplifying their biphobia, and in a way that transforms their meaning and significance.
Jennie Cole, Wanting Sounds (2022)
Details:
Book measures approximately 18.5 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm. As each book is handmade, dimensions may vary slightly.
80 unnumbered pages.
From an edition of 1000 copies.
An artist’s book by Jennie Cole. Made in London, 2022.
Construction:
Covers of 270gsm Vermillion Colorplan paper.
Outer wrapper of Grey Mauve Minéraux paper (wax-treated lokta).
Open belly band of 135gsm Candy Pink Colorplan paper foil-stamped with title and lip print images in metallic red.
Inner pages feature digital colour printed lip print images along with text in red, originally typewritten on a Maritsa 30, some hand-typewritten text in red ink, some lip prints at start and end of book hand-stamped with red ink.
Endpapers of 30gsm Rose Lokta Khadi paper. Sewn in longstitch style using red linen thread.
This artist’s book is available to purchase in London at bookartbookshop.
