{"id":1370,"date":"2025-11-05T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/?page_id=1370"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:00:24","slug":"raamat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/raamat\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST'S BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist\u2019s book is an artwork in the form of a book, where the author uses the possibilities of the book as a medium \u2014 its material, form, and structure \u2014 as creative tools. It focuses on the relationship between form and content, offering an experience that engages both the eye and the hand. An artist\u2019s book can be a traditional binding, a folded book, a leporello, or a completely experimental object. By using different materials, techniques, lettering styles, and compositional approaches, I have endless opportunities to create a small, self-contained world within each book. These worlds reflect experiences, emotions, and contemplations, weaving the personal and the universal into a visual narrative that the viewer can step into for a moment. I enjoy every stage of the bookmaking process \u2014 from searching for suitable texts to documenting the finished work.
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Timeless Roman<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Boxed book with Roman Capital developments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broad-edged and pointed nibs, acrylic ink, watercolours<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Out of the Home Forest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\nMy soles know this narrow path,
here in Dark Forest old familiar things await \u2014
tough blueberry stems, grey beards of moss,
cones crunching underfoot and stumps crowned with fungi like the heels of loaf.

I walk slowly.
The forest\u2019s sounds and scents, its breath and peace,
quietly seep into me, and I feel \u2014 I am home.

Along that old track, in summers, I threaded berries onto a straw of grass,
a little farther on we gathered milkcaps with grandma,
and searched for the golden chanterelles with father.

And yet, now there is much that wasn\u2019t there before \u2014
the forest lives and ages and changes.
Bark beetles gnaw at the spruces, windfall blocks the way
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This small experimental book was found in a home forest in Southern Estonia. The covers are crafted from the fruiting bodies of the Fomitopsis pinicola, to which 40 coffee-stained, deckle-edged pages have been individually bound. On the pages, one can see lichen patterns transferred through gel printing, as well as graphics made from blueberry stems and pine needles. Among the uncial-script texts are occasional photographs from that same forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book of spring<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Crossroads<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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<\/p>\nCrossroads afoot
to sing the blues you must
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J\u00fcrgen Rooste \/ Adam Cullen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This time, I sought inspiration for the book\u2019s structure from the form of haiku. The core of the book is divided into three sections, each representing one line of a haiku. Every page executed in the paper-cut technique represents a single syllable of that line (the Estonian haiku form invented by Asko K\u00fcnnap, used here, follows a 4\u20136\u20134 structure, which made it possible to use double-page spreads and a Coptic binding).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it is fascinating how certain things or ideas unexpectedly converge \u2014 that is exactly what happened when I stumbled upon this haiku and immediately recognized the reference to the legend of the blues guitarist Robert Johnson. And since I had been enjoying a musical piece based on that very story over the past couple of weeks, I chose the tones of the paper according to the color palette of the song\u2019s music video\u2026
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Eclectic book in Japanese binding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red and black<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\nSometimes I listen to Riho. I enjoy, reflect, and let myself be inspired. This time was no different.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The idea for creating this calligraphic booklet emerged in the autumn of 2023 while listening to this roughly 20-year-old album by Riho Sibul and looking at the timelessly beautiful design of its cover. The book\u2019s central theme is to write excerpts from the song lyrics on the album in scripts from different historical periods learned in calligraphy school \u2013 from Roman capital letters all the way to contemporary scripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is designed in a format borrowed from the CD cover and bound in Japanese binding.\nAnd just as Riho Sibul sang in Estonian, with an Estonian heart, the book is carried by a quiet patriotism \u2014 blue washes of watercolour and acrylics, the depth of black ink, and the clarity of white paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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rAAMAT Kunstnikuraamat on kunstiteos raamatu vormis, kus autor kasutab raamatu kui meediumi v\u00f5imalusi \u2013 materjali, vormi ja struktuuri \u2013 loomevahendina. See keskendub vormi ja sisu suhtele, pakkudes vaatajale nii silmale kui ka k\u00e4ele suunatud kogemust. Kunstnikuraamat v\u00f5ib olla traditsiooniline k\u00f6ide, voldik, leporello v\u00f5i t\u00e4iesti eksperimentaalne objekt. Kasutades eri materjale, tehnikaid, kirjastiile ja kompositsiooniv\u00f5tteid on mul…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":119,"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sulegasydamest.kadrivilu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}