I DON'T KNOW YOU

I don't know you is an artist's book that has been translated into a work of self-knowledge and overcoming that starts from the externalization of grief through a series of writings that have been done throughout throughout the creation period but especially during the first months. It's an exhaust valve and an explosion of mixed feelings. In short, a way to manage a series of emotions and expel them from the system in order to be able to close a difficult stage and be able to finish a chapter to start a new one. 

This is a project in which text and image emerge from the depths of being. 

It is made up of a series of sentences representative of the different situations and phases through which it has gone but at the same time looking for those that can be extrapolated to the lives of other people. A series of sentences that are not illustrative of a single personal experience but that one can feel identified with.  

The project contains twenty-one double pages containing twenty-one sentences and fourteen illustrations.

Various vacuum engraving techniques have been used to create these illustrations  like the dry tip,  etching and aquatint, while combining them with other additional techniques. 

Some of these techniques have been aniline, acrylic paint, burning with a lighter, cyanotype, carborundum or photogravure.

Different materials have also been adhered such as threads, fragments of the tarlatana used to make the prints or some  forgotten dried flowers from an era to which the work precisely refers.

The integration of text and image has been carried out through small mobile typefaces.

Finally, in terms of the finish of this piece, we have tried to recall the aesthetics of an old newspaper both in terms of the covers and the stitching in which a Coptic binding has been combined with a stitch long stitch that allows a 180 degree opening in the book.