Entropic Oscillations, A Weather Story

Orinda, California: Donna Day Westerman, N.D.. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. fine. Westerman, Donna Day. Number 16 of 20, tall, thin quarto size, five folded leaves, signed by the artist. Limited edition, number 16 of 20. Donna Day Westerman is a printmaker and painter in the Bay Area of California. [She is] "interested in traditional and historical media — particularly, woodcuts, wood-engravings and egg tempera — used in a contemporary manner. Working from close observation, and occasionally referring to [her] own photographs, [she] conceptually reduce[s] realistic nature to calligraphic or glyph-like notations. A kind of erasure takes place as the (truncated) visual abundance... is distilled into the essence of the place. Other senses, such as sound and touch often inform the visual... A challenge... has been to capture the powerful ephemeral forms of fog and water in the hard-edged medium of wood... the medium itself determines much of the outcome." (N.B., "Artist's Statement" from web site of the Artist.) The present volume is themed around a "weather story" with abstracted diagrams showing the interconnectedness of the earth; as the Artist says in the colophon, "A large high pressure system settles over the great plain of China bordered by the Himalayas. This high sets up a series of highs and lows that oscillate over the northern Pacific determining the wind direction at the West Coast."

***DESCRIPTION: Original handmade blue-gray paper covered boards, pictorial title strip laid onto upper board, backstrip opens so the accordion style format can be displayed in a connected elongated format, single-panel wood engraving with silk screen overlays, in six colors 4" x 20", Arches 88 paper, 12" x 4" when closed, five folded leaves including title-page and colophon, limited edition, number 16 of 20, signed by Donna Day Westerman.

***CONDITION: A fine copy, no flaws to the paper covers, leaves are bright, rich impression, a fine copy signed and numbered by Donna Day Westerman; acquired by us new directly from the Artist.

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