AI – Authentic Inanity (2024)

AI – Authentic Inanity: Front and back covers. Published June 2024.
A6 origami book-format. Unfolds to A4.

Authentic Inanity is as far from Artificial Intelligence as you can get – created using no digital means whatsoever.

Title; individually handwritten using lettering stencils and pigment liners. 

First page turn; hand-stitching and pop-up.

A return to the handmade and the naive robots which were used in my early work from 2000; Boy Meets Girl – the meeting of two robots.

Use of hand-cuts and simple pop-ups have also been constants in much of my previous work. Sewn elements were first introduced into my work in 1995 and also the use of a traditional typewriter. Adding postage stamps is a more recent feature.

Using pochoir and rubber stamping seemed like the perfect way to produce multiples when the working space is limited.

Kitchen top pochoir printing – one-by-one.

Final print: green robot-crane – front.

AI – unfolded; blue robot – back.

Each copy individually typed on an Adler Special typewriter.

Watch the book unfold:

A6 origami book format – unfolding to A4.

10 pages covers included.

Hand-printed using acrylic paint, pochoir and rubber stamping techniques. Hand-stitched and individually typed on Adler Special typewriter (circa 1950's). Title individually done using lettering stencils and Staedtler pigment liner 0.1 and 0.3. Each piece also has three original postage stamps added, making each copy unique. Copies no. 27 & 28 furthermore have an extra layer of printing added by Gelli plate.
Stock: 120gsm Fabriano Toned paper – coloured: 'Clay'.
Cover size: A6 (7.5 x 10.5 cm)
Language: English + code
Edition 30, individually numbered on typewriter and in a glassine envelope.
Published June 2024.

In the public collections of: Winchester School of Art Library: Special Collections.

Copies in glassine envelopes.

 
Launched at Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE), UWE Bower Ashton, Bristol, UK, June 29th 2024.

On the table at BABE 2024.