A beautiful book designed by Graphical House, to accompany a new exhibition of large format photographs, by Gayle Chong Kwan — The Obsidian Isle.
The photographs, documenting a fictional island located off the west coast of Scotland, are constructed from found images, three-dimensional elements and medium-format photographs taken by the artist, which are re-made as mise-en-scenes of the island and then photographed in the studio.
The mirrored black book cover, a nod to traditions of Claude glass used by landscape artists in the late 18th century, is protected by a fictional map of the ‘The Obsidian Isle’ that wraps around the book.