The Sensual World - Peter Cochrane - book + print
“The Sensual World,” by Peter Cochrane.
Self-published, printed by Clown Kisses Press.
16 pages with archival tissue paper interleaving.
8.5”x11”
Choice of one 15x20 signed archival inkjet print on 17x22 Moab Entrada Rag 300 paper.
A full set of images to select from will be emailed to you after purchase, and can be found here.
Due to the four-channel ink layering process of the risograph printer, every book is unique. Each page passes through the printer four times with a different color to create the image. Each page is interleaved with archival tissue paper.
Note: risograph ink is oil based. Some ink transfer may occur.
Image and book will ship separately.
From The Sensual World, by Peter Cochrane.
The Sensual World uses photographic processes and methods of analog printing to degrade the otherwise pristine landscape into something more complex, confusing, and reminiscent of fading memory. Unlike much of my studio-based practice, these images were created as I carried a medium format film camera on excursions into nature across many years. Though I was previously an avid hiker, I had not been able to explore the natural world for nearly a decade before this project.
After years of photographing, I developed the film and scanned it to create digital negatives. The images I found were too sharp and clear, and were not reflective of my hazy, complex, and detached experiences. Medium format film contains so much beautiful information, which was creating false memories of too-beautiful landscapes. In this translation from physical film to digital monitor—each using light and color in different ways to construct the same image—I felt some elusive yet crucial element was being chipped away.
I turned to the risograph machine to help match the scans with the images I held in my mind. Each new print had the same core of its counterpart negative, but different bones. They became like paintings made from closing one’s eyes and sensing the time and place of a far-off landscape. I then combed through hundreds of risograph prints to find the ones that felt the most reminiscent of my time taking the images and digitally photographed one per original negative. I made a series of large scale archival inkjet prints to infuse color and explode the physical layering of ink from the risograph to explore the spaces in between.
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The book contains sixteen risograph prints representing the first four years of exploration, and each year progresses through four images: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Risographs are made by separating the image into four layers, each a different color, and layering them through multiple passes in the printer to create new colors. These images act as a kind of key to uncovering hidden memories and understanding internal growth. A series of large-scale archival inkjet prints represent a final translation from film negative, to risograph print, to digital photograph, and final photograph. This last stage adds a dreamlike quality to the prints that reflects my complicated relationship with memory and distance when working through these images.