CMY: a book of optical Color Blending
inkjet printing on paper, cotton twine, digital PDF
5 inches by 5 inches, 10 pages
2020
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The closed book of CMY: a book of optical color blending on a white background. The square book is bound by white cotton string on the left side using a Japanese binding technique. On the cover are three rectangular bars lined up vertically in a square in the colors cyan, magenta, and yellow.
A video of the artist’s pale hands flipping through the CMY book with occasional sounds of paper pages being turned. The seven images inside each appear on their own page. On the first page is a cyan colored, grid based pattern of tiny diagonal lines designated as the letter “C”, on the second a different gridded pattern in magenta for “M”, on the third another pattern in yellow for “Y”. The next three pages include the patterns of “C+M” layered together, which blend to create blue, “C+Y” blending to create green, and “M+Y” blending to create red. The final pattern layering “C+M+Y” creates a complex multicolored plaid.