Cyanoscapes: Portals beyond the blues

Join Massy Books, EcoBlend™, and Dennis Humphrey for the Book Launch & Talk on Book Making & Exhibition, Cyanoscapes: Portals beyond the blues, on Thursday, August 14th at 7 pm.

Registration is free, but required.

Venue:

The event will be hosted at Massy Books, 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver.

Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.

Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended, but not required. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.

About the Book:

Cyanoscapes: Portals beyond the blues, a book of poetry and images that act as portals into our inner and outer worlds, allowing readers to pause, zoom into, feel, explore and dream about what we see and feel around us. Published in collaboration with EcoBlend™, this limited edition book set contains the following components, printed on EcoBlend mineral-based paper material:

• a 7.5 inch (19 cm) square book of micropoems and graphic poems about cyanotypes;

• 130 pages, softbound with a Japanese-style stab binding;

• front and back endpapers;

• an introduction to cyanotype;

• several sections describing various techniques I used to introduce colour in my cyanotype printing;

• interesting quotes to evoke and to make us ponder;

• list of the 48 cyanotype prints;

• digital reproductions of 48 original cyanotype prints;

• 13 micropoems and graphic poems;

• a hand-cut wraparound slipcase with logo button tie

• a variable digital cyanotype monoprint inside a cut portal sleeve;

• a 3d-printed print display stand;

• a 3d-printed portal scope;

• a Certificate of Authenticity, numbered, dated and signed by the artis

About the Author:

Dennis Humphrey (aka desean) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans digital photography, integral film, cyanotype, photo encaustics, printmaking, 3D printing, poetry and the book arts. He has written and illustrated, designed and printed, and handmade books that feature his art and writing.

Dennis' work is intuitive, based on felt experiences, aiming to evoke and engage the viewer through the senses. He explores the interplay of light and darkness, colour, translucency and textures, mostly through images of faces, hands, bodies, barks and leaves. He strives to evoke the notions of time, aging, identity, memory, sensuality, decay, mortality, renewal and transformation that imbue our liminal worlds.

Host or Publisher Massy Books