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CODE(x)+1 #18: Craft as Catalyst

Writer
Ken Botnick
Date
2024
Publisher
The CODEX Foundation
Format
Anthologies
Size
14 × 20 cm
Length
16 pp
Genre
Craft, Typography
Description

While conceptual complexities differentiate the artist book from the world of handmade objects, there is a similarity in reconciling one’s vision for a project with its functionality. One of the truest lessons of craft practice is that it is not only difficult to foster innovation and creativity in the absence of constraints, the constraints give birth to them. Italo Calvino described this as “escaping the pull of gravity that so stimulates the imagination.” The book, a seemingly constrained form, should surely be exhausted by now. Yet it continues. And we continue making them. The book’s ineffable nature—its sustainable, renewable, inexhaustible resource—is found in the potential of the imaginative mind informed by the work of the hand.

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