Intimate Encounters

Binding - Concertina

Dimensions - 6.5 inches high and 9.5 inches wide.

Intimate Encounters is an edition of 29 concertina books with wooden slip covers each containing a color title page and a selection of black and white scanning electron microscope images of material from the Kingdom Plantae. Each image was photographed as an art object. Some images are abstract in nature while others evoke a sense of mystery by their pattern, texture and response evoked in the viewer.

Linking the fascination humans have had with plants over the millennia, a light silver-grey text runs along the foot of the book’s length listing a selection of botanists over the ages from Greek times to the modern era.

Each book contains 32 pages printed on Epson Somerset Velvet paper using pigmented inks. The book covers are white archival museum board and each front cover is embossed with an image of a microscope. The book is enclosed in a fine art paper slip jacket and housed in a wooden slip case. The slip case’s interior is Brazilian cherry wood while the exterior is Jatoba wood.

Intimate Encounters was produced as a fund raiser to support students at the University of Manitoba School of Art. Books are available for purchase from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. Additional information here.