Land(scaped)

Size unfolded: 135 x 30 cm or 53 x 12 inches
Size closed:33 x 18 x 3 cm or 13 x 7 x 1 inch

Year: 1991

Text: Collaboratively written and made by Barbara Schubring and Amanda Degener.

Materials: Offset printed photographs, pigmented abaca handmade paper, letterpress on Tenjugo kozo tissue, red paint.

Techniques: Pulp painting with stencils, dry paper embedment’s, letterpress and hand lettering.

Number of pages: One long accordion or if read like a traditional book 4 chapters.

Edition size:1-10 with clamshell box and original photos 20-90 with wrapper and offset photos for a total of 90 copies.

(Jan 2025) Copies available:1 in clamshell and 20 in wrapper.

Published and made at the Sherman Mill. Funded by Irving and Bunzy Sherman Signed by Barbara Schubring and Amanda Degener. All photos taken by Barbara Schubring.

Ten copies are made incorporating original black and white photos and eighty copies of the same photos but they are offset printed. At the beginning the imagery is just of the land and then it progresses away from green and more toward cities. The end juxtaposes a photo of an Anasazi cliff dwelling integrated with the land and a photo of the city of Minneapolis just plopped onto the surface. Land(scaped) can be read in chapters or it can be viewed all at once.