Captain's Log: An Installation in a Box
2008 by Katie Loesel
Edition of 100

This installation in a box contains twenty-seven cards one can arrange at their own discretion to recreate Katie Loesel's Captain's Log.

The original Captain’s Log is a 7-foot installation of monoprints (oil-based intaglio inks on Johannot paper) that was completed in 2007. The abstracted landscapes map a journey through an imaginary utopia of land, sky, and water. Loesel writes, "Maps take us from the known to the unknown. They are created through a combination of actually being in a place, the memory of a place, and the stories passed along about a place. Captain’s Log is the record of the artists journey through an imaginary and personal utopia. It is the map of that place."

In addition to reproductions of the prints on cards, the box contains instructions for recreating the installation on their own wall, bullentin board, rear car window, bathroom stall door, or other appropriate space.

Those who purchase Captain's Log: An Installation in a Box are encouraged to submit images of their installations which we feature on Captain's Log Installation blog. CLICK HERE...to check some out. To submit images, send an email to info@kasinihouse.com.

Loesel is the winner of the 2008 Vermont Contemporary Art Annual Cover Award, and the publication of this “installation in a box” is part of that award. The Vermont Contemporary Art Annual showcases the work of Vermont artists. Each year, the publishers select one artist to be featured on the cover. That artist is given a publishing contract.

Kasini House is pleased to release this nifty, limited edition publication.

Title: Captain's Log: An Installation in a Box
By: Katie Loesel
Edition Size: 100
Trim Size: 7"x5.5"x1"
Binding: Loose
Page Count: 27 cards, 1 broadside
Cover: Full Color
Illustrations: 18 full color images
Product Design: Ric Kasini Kadour
Publisher: Kasini House Books
Release Date: August 2008
Price: $25.00

KATIE LOESEL
Katie Loesel grew up on Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. She is a 2007 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, where she received a BFA in Printmaking. Upon graduation, she received the Agnes Gund Traveling Scholarship Award. She now lives in Essex, Vermont and teaches printmaking at Burlington City Arts Print Studio 250. She has exhibited her work at the Bundy Center for the Arts in Waitsfield and at Kasini House in Burlington. Katie is a printmaker, bookmaker, drawer, crafter, cyclist, and sailor, amongst other things.

Loesel writes about her artmaking: “Events occur constantly, simultaneously, inside and outside of our consciousness. Aspects of space and time do not affect the existence of these events. Whether or not the events occur in real life or they are just imagined in the context of the mind, memory is the only thing that makes them real after they have happened. Memory can be seen in gesture, mark, and pathways. My work is what records these events, what keeps their memory, and allows them to grow. The cause and effect of each event are interconnected, nothing is totally alone. Space and place, forces, passageways, landscape and mark depict the journey of memory and events over a period of time. Memory is a narrative, a history created by the mind.

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