Sculptural Autopsies with Yasue Maetake Pt. 1 is an essay in fragments about the New York-based Japanese sculptor, Yasue Maetake. The poet, Addison Bale, constructs a unique portrait of the artist: through an assemblage of dialogue interlaced with email exchanges and prose passages, Bale crafts a written reflection of Maetake’s abstract sculptures, which are themselves assemblages of materials such as bone, metal, and resin. Maetake, articulated by Bale’s experimental approach, comes into focus as an artist whose practice, while buoyed by the routine interruptions of daily life and motherhood, is passionately interlocked with the timeless pursuit of sculpture.
Through their collaborative dialogue and poetic precision in this Pt. 1, Maetake and Bale achieve a brief cohabitation of the artist’s sculptural psyche, only just scraping the surface of her image.
This limited-run, bilingual edition of Sculptural Autopsies with Yasue Maetake Pt. 1 is risograph-printed in rich, texturally vibrant toners, by the publishing studio of Tiding House Press, Brooklyn. Translated from English into Japanese, this riso-booklet presents the reader with both languages beginning at the outside covers and reading towards the centerfold to create a linguistic mirror image.
