A Sun That Rises

Description:	Structure: Accordion book. (W) 6” x (H) 5 .” - (L) 44 .“ when fully extended; half clam-shell box with window cut out (W) 6 3/8” x (H) 6” x (D) 7/8”; Media: BFK paper, soft Unryu paper, Mulberry paper, hand dyed silk ribbon, Machine stitching; the background is an abstract etching, text letterpress printed, digitally set in Garamond, using photopolymer plates. Edition Size: 10; number 2,3 and 4 for ‘An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street’; Book finished in January 2013Bettina Pauly was trained as a professional chef, then worked as a head server throughout Europe before she received a B.A. in Hotel-Economy from Hotel Management School in Heidelberg, Germany. After coming to the U.S. and working in hospitality here, she went back to school and studied at the Academy of Art University San Francisco in the Fine Arts program under Chris Rolik and Macy Chadwick. She gained further book arts knowledge at the San Francisco Center for the Book, specifically taking advantage of classes taught by artists such as Julie Chen, Kumi Korf, Paul Johnson, and Mary Laird.Bettina is living in San Francisco as a book artist and working as a letterpress printer with Kim Vanderheiden at Painted Tongue Studios, Oakland, California. She teaches workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book, the Academy of Art University and O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. She loves books and boxes both as physical objects and as containers of meaning. She is interested in a variety of folded, sewn and woven structures in which she can incorporate her printing.Her award winning work is included in library collections at: St John’s/Saint Benedict College Minnesota, Minnesota; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah; University of Denver, Colorado; University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; San Jose State University, California; Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska.Shown at Galleries in the Bay Area and in Portland, Oregon, featured in “500 Handmade Books”, “Good Mail Day”, “1000 Artists’ Books”, “Thread loves Paper”, Ed Hutchins’ Moveable Book Society Newsletter. A sun that rises’ - ‘HOPE’The text I used for A sun that rises is the same text I used for the Al-Mutanabbi Street starts here broadside. It is taken from the documentary A Candle for Shabandar Cafe, filmed and directed by Emad Ali, Baghdad Film School, in 2007. Abdul Satar (Abu Ali) is shown in the documentary. He is standing in front of the Shabandar Cafe while they are holding vigil for all the people who died in the car bombing. He is talking about destruction throughout the centuries, about continuing cruel violence and he ends with the words there is still a sun that rises and there is hope despite all the destruction. This after the bombing had taken toll at his family, his business, his livelihood, his life.With the choice of colours - the etching pulled in a grey/black, the letterpress printed text in a dark red/brown, the stitching a dark red, the silk ribbon a vibrant red, the box covered in a smoky black - I am trying to give this piece the feeling of the destruction, the smoke, the flames, the blood, the scars left behind.The vibrant color of the ribbon the color of the sunrise seen through air thick with smoke.
Origin:	2013
Created By:	Pauly, Bettina
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/549
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks

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