Title
VOLUME
Author
Joe Gillette
Size (inches)
11 x 4.5 x 7
Pages
Year
2023
Edition
1
Production
Handmade
Construction
silicone
Printing
Materials
plasticpapervarious packaging and ephemerapoly zipper bags
Note

Created as part of a pilot Artist In Residence series in Winter 2023.

About

VOLUME is a collection of bound work that explores themes of consumption, entropy, transformation, and loss. Consisting of incidental and kinetic compositions formed from discarded packaging and other personal ephemera, the book is rooted in a conceptual exploration of the relationship between material and meaning. VOLUME is full of precious garbage, both universal and intimate - all of it suspended in a translucent brick in “a fight against forgetting.” VOLUME challenges the traditional form of a book and asks the viewer to consider the past, the present, and eternity.