Wanting
Sounds
Wanting Sounds is an artist’s book of text and image, in the form of a longstitch-bound softcover binding with a wrapper of lokta minéraux paper, and an open belly band with foil stamped detailing.
The pages of Wanting Sounds feature a visual poem written in lipstick prints, a visual language I derived from Bob Cobbing’s book ‘The Five Vowels’ (cover shown here, pages displayed on wall in this image).
Pressing mouth to paper, I used the resulting lipstick marks to transcribe every negative view ever expressed to me about my bisexuality.
These expressions of hostility now form a poetic catalogue of verbal-visual traces.
In this way, the visual poem in Wanting Sounds repeats its source materials without amplifying their biphobia, and in a way that transforms their meaning and significance.
Jennie Cole, Wanting Sounds (2022)
Details:
Book measures approximately 18.5 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm. As each book is handmade, dimensions may vary slightly.
80 unnumbered pages.
From an edition of 1000 copies.
An artist’s book by Jennie Cole. Made in London, 2022.
Construction:
Covers of 270gsm Vermillion Colorplan paper.
Outer wrapper of Grey Mauve Minéraux paper (wax-treated lokta).
Open belly band of 135gsm Candy Pink Colorplan paper foil-stamped with title and lip print images in metallic red.
Inner pages feature digital colour printed lip print images along with text in red, originally typewritten on a Maritsa 30, some hand-typewritten text in red ink, some lip prints at start and end of book hand-stamped with red ink.
Endpapers of 30gsm Rose Lokta Khadi paper. Sewn in longstitch style using red linen thread.
This artist’s book is available for purchase in London at bookartbookshop, or online from Manticoria.
