All the Colors I own: Paint Edition
acrylic paint, watercolor paint, and inkjet printing on paper, bound with linen twine and metallic embroidery thread
booklet 11 inches by 7 inches, 14 pages, 12 copies
digital audio file, 33 minutes 10 seconds
2022-2023
In this book, I wanted to engage with the visual and tactile properties of my paint collection and share those experiences. The project emphasizes the tactile qualities of the paints in the physical book, while providing descriptions of the colors and the experience of painting with them in the accompanying audio book.
The audio book is available in the player below:
Download the PDF transcript for the audio book
A video tour of the book features of All the Colors I Own
A gallery of eight images showing the cover of All the Colors I Own (black text on white paper), and each of the seven page spreads of the book. Each spread has the names of the paints on the left and the squares of hand-painted color on the right. The color ranges of the spreads are white to black, copper to brown, purple to red, orange to gold, yellow, green, and blue. The artist’s pale hand holds each spread open at the bottom.