This small and handsome cloth bound book takes the reader on a photographic excursion through wild woods preservations in Scotland. Organized by season, view point, and foliage, the artist also employs subtle collage and photographic printing techniques.
In the Introduction, Helen Douglas writes: “Once I said to someone that I thought we all had a wild wood within us, he replied, ‘Speak for yourself’. I though ‘I will’. This is my ‘wild wood’ in book. I hope in its venturing more than a leaf or two will be shared. Wild Wood took root in my childhood and was inspired by the Fairy Dean in the Elwy Glen where I was brought up, and by the small ancient woods at Deuchar and Tinnis Stiel in Yarrow where I live. In gathering material for this book I felt I was gathering something of the Border past to take into the future. I would like to think of this pocket book as a miniature, as a seed of this much larger Wild Wood of the future. Published in 1999 by Weproductions. Printed Matter is pleased to present an exhibition overviewing the publishing history of Weproductions, an imprint co-run by Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas. Organized by Douglas, the exhibition draws from extensive archival material to examine the working methods, surrounding context, and emergent themes (narrative, place, the natural world) that shaped the output of the press from the early 1970s through to the 2010s. On view until June 30. Link to publisher page in bio.
