LORRAINE WHELAN : GOOD MORNING/MAIDGIN MHAIGH/BUENOS
DIAS: 2016
Good Morning/Buenos
Dias/Maidgin Mhaigh
Three handbound books of lino prints, each in an edition of 10
Included in the Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios,
November 2016
These books are a personal response to the death of my
mother at the end of the summer of 2016. The simple ritual of a polite
greeting and query have an existential significance. Each book has a
corrugated cardboard cover and is handbound using 6 strand cotton embroidery
thread. The endpapers and edition page are 100% acid-free rag paper,
and the lino prints are printed on heavyweight cold-pressed acid-free
Strathmore watercolour paper, 140 lb (300 g/m2). The books are 15 cm
x 19 cm x 1 cm (LxWxD). The first and last pages contain a lino-print
of text in one of three languages (English, Spanish or Irish). The three
image prints are in the following order: egg in cup, two mugs, teapot.
The image size for each lino print is 6.2 cm x 7.5 cm.