3% [1-5]

set of 5 booklets | h 150mm x w 120mm; each booklet 16 pages, including covers | each book contains only the colour 3% black, and plays with the perceptual possibilities of the soft semi-transparent paper, exploring show-through effects (see detail on each individual booklet below) | printed inkjet on 80gsm Hahnemuhle Sumi-e paper | handbound with linen thread | box folder, printed with a block of 3% black | the first stages of this series were developed during a Research Residency in Artists’ Books at the Edinburgh College of Art Library, May 2014 | limited edition of 20 | 2015 | £75 | purchase

3% [1]

this work acts as a foundational work for the 3% series [1-5] | each facing page (excluding cover and next page) is printed with a 3% black tinted rectangle of 90mm x 60mm | the aim is to suggest variations/deepenings/lightenings in tint when turning the semi-transparent paper pages, primarily due to show-through and the different lights in which a page is viewed as it is lifted and turned, although these variations do not actually exist

3% [2]

book [2] is like book [1], yet every other page is blank, creating a subtler show-through, and the illusion that pages are printed when they are not

3% [3]

book [3] is like book [2], yet every other page contains an empty 3pt frame in 3%, with the illusion that the next page’s block appears to fill it

3% [4]

book [4] is like book [2], yet every other page contains a half block, creating the illusion of a darker or lighter block next to it due to show-through