The Waters Are Divided by Paul Till
As told by Paul himself:
"This piece is developed from one of my manipulated iPhone photos-a practice that is like my darkroom manipulations of the past, but integrated in the continuous stream of life and free moments that we can now use wisely. The image was the basis of the collaboration with Someone Editions. The text and the image are a visual jest with reference to three folds paper and the mirroring of the image."
Paul Till is Toronto photographer whose tangled path of photographic practices - straight, manipulated, documentary, constructed, editorial, satirical, to name just a few - has, in retrospect, led to a series of multiple chaotic interactions which have brought us to the present moment.
2017
19.5H x 11W”
typeset in Emigré Democratica and FFDax
The image is output from HP Digital 3200 on Epson Enhanced Matt paper
Letterpress imprinted in two colours and three impressions
Signed and numbered, in an edition of 52 copies, 26 of which are included in the boxed someone:water collection
someone:water four The Waters Are Divided
someone:water Six Broadsides in a Box
someone:water two We are All Bodies of waters
someone:water three The Metaphysics of Water
someone:water six Pas De Deux
someone:water Title page
someone:water MonoprintsThe someone:water series was started in 2009 with The Shore, someone:water one, by A.F. Moritz, in the year that the author won the Griffen Poetry Prize. The series developed through the following years, with Astrida Neimanis (2011), Beatriz Hausner and Seth Scriver (2012), and Pamela Dodds (2014) adding to the collections with someone:water two, three and five.
The collection was completed for launch in December 2017 with the release of two new broadsides: the waters are divided by Paul Till and Pas De Deux by KarlJirgens with image by Zile Liepins.
Editor Beatriz Hausner who also authors someone:water three has brought the literary component of this collection to fruition, while Deborah Barnett has guided the visual components, and designed and printed the series.
Split fountain letterpress printed title pages impressed directly from the wood, and individual monoprint-duplexed boxes were designed and produced in the Someone Editions atelier in 2014, art directed by Deborah Barnett, with monoprinting accomplished by Claro Cosco for the edition.
A few title pages and a few monoprints have been held back from title page and box production to be made available as individual prints for framing.
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