Language Has No Weather: Field Notes from Unseen California
Language Has No Weather: is a limited-edition artists’ book featuring works by five women artists — Mercedes Dorame, Karolina Karlic, Tarrah Krajnak, Dionne Lee, and Aspen Mays — the inaugural research cohort of Unseen California.
Shana Lopes (Asst. Curator of Photography at SFMOMA) wrote an introductory essay and edited the two roundtable discussions with the artists found at the back of the book.
This book features the artists’ explorations in progress—their field notes—across media, generated from site work and ongoing dialogues. In this context, field notes are understood as fragments toward knowing, and these are embodied, subjective observations that might speculate and certainly express wonder, but also recognize that interpretation will often happen later, elsewhere.
Unseen California is a multi-pronged arts research initiative utilizing the University of California Natural Reserve System through site specific research performed by a collaborative artist cohort, generating opportunities for field-based arts teaching and learning, public programming, and the creation of artworks.
The book was designed, printed and published by theretherenow, a risograph atelier founded in 2016 by Travis Shaffer, which specializes in the application of risograph printing to photography and photo-adjacent works.
The book and folio were risograph printed by theretherenow onto 100% recycled paper using a total of 11 ink colors, bound into hand screen-printed G.F. Smith Colorplan Covers using brass binding hardware.
160pp, 20.8cm x 22.8cm, post-binding, edition of 300 copies.
Language Has No Weather: is a limited-edition artists’ book featuring works by five women artists — Mercedes Dorame, Karolina Karlic, Tarrah Krajnak, Dionne Lee, and Aspen Mays — the inaugural research cohort of Unseen California.
Shana Lopes (Asst. Curator of Photography at SFMOMA) wrote an introductory essay and edited the two roundtable discussions with the artists found at the back of the book.
This book features the artists’ explorations in progress—their field notes—across media, generated from site work and ongoing dialogues. In this context, field notes are understood as fragments toward knowing, and these are embodied, subjective observations that might speculate and certainly express wonder, but also recognize that interpretation will often happen later, elsewhere.
Unseen California is a multi-pronged arts research initiative utilizing the University of California Natural Reserve System through site specific research performed by a collaborative artist cohort, generating opportunities for field-based arts teaching and learning, public programming, and the creation of artworks.
The book was designed, printed and published by theretherenow, a risograph atelier founded in 2016 by Travis Shaffer, which specializes in the application of risograph printing to photography and photo-adjacent works.
The book and folio were risograph printed by theretherenow onto 100% recycled paper using a total of 11 ink colors, bound into hand screen-printed G.F. Smith Colorplan Covers using brass binding hardware.
160pp, 20.8cm x 22.8cm, post-binding, edition of 300 copies.
Language Has No Weather: is a limited-edition artists’ book featuring works by five women artists — Mercedes Dorame, Karolina Karlic, Tarrah Krajnak, Dionne Lee, and Aspen Mays — the inaugural research cohort of Unseen California.
Shana Lopes (Asst. Curator of Photography at SFMOMA) wrote an introductory essay and edited the two roundtable discussions with the artists found at the back of the book.
This book features the artists’ explorations in progress—their field notes—across media, generated from site work and ongoing dialogues. In this context, field notes are understood as fragments toward knowing, and these are embodied, subjective observations that might speculate and certainly express wonder, but also recognize that interpretation will often happen later, elsewhere.
Unseen California is a multi-pronged arts research initiative utilizing the University of California Natural Reserve System through site specific research performed by a collaborative artist cohort, generating opportunities for field-based arts teaching and learning, public programming, and the creation of artworks.
The book was designed, printed and published by theretherenow, a risograph atelier founded in 2016 by Travis Shaffer, which specializes in the application of risograph printing to photography and photo-adjacent works.
The book and folio were risograph printed by theretherenow onto 100% recycled paper using a total of 11 ink colors, bound into hand screen-printed G.F. Smith Colorplan Covers using brass binding hardware.
160pp, 20.8cm x 22.8cm, post-binding, edition of 300 copies.