Palimpsest III
Inkjet and staple bound artist book, 2023
Created for Doug Dumais’s project Palimpsest for Art in the Open 2023. Curated by Roxanne Fernandes.
This book is a collection of drawings created during Art in the Open 2023. Dumais’s original project took place on the shore of the Hillsbourough River in Charlottetown, PE.
“While on the shore, I worked in a makeshift artist studio, which consisted of a 6x6x6-feet PVC cube frame. This space contained the essentials of a photographer’s studio: a camera, tripod, laptop, printer, and notebook. The studio cube was meant to serve as a frame for the performance and referenced the small PVC squares used by scientists for shoreline monitoring. I edited and printed images on site in the studio, and wrote poems directly on the prints, which I handed out for free to visitors to the installation.”
- Doug Dumais
Invited to create my own cube studio, I decided to combine my audio and drawing practices in a way I had not explored before. I invited audience members to leave me objects in a drop box to research. I attached contact mics to a drawing table so that every time I made a mark on the page an audio signal was sent through a series of effects and played through a small Fender guitar amp. Throughout the night I would manipulate the effects based on what I was drawing and how many people were in the room. This book is a collection of most of those drawings made on that night.
