Baake, Frans. — Emptyful.
No place, self-published, 2016, leporello in 8 sections, inside frontcover and inside backcover with opposite page with woodblockprint in green, each resembling a hill (remaining leaves remained unused), printed in 18 numbered and signed copies, light grey felt over board covers with linocut in red, in folded protective board envelope, again titled and dated and numbered in pen, oblong small octavo (10 x 15,3 cm.). = This copy numbered 1/18 and signed and 16 in red pen on backcover. During his travels, Frans Baake makes sketches, photos and notes. The journey is then translated into a work of art, namely an artist's book, which he publishes himself in a small edition. In artists' books, the image usually dominates. The countless artist books that Baake has made are full of photos, woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, collages and texts. The books are not literally about his travels and are therefore not comparable to the way we make our photo album or diary after a holiday. Baakes way of working is similar in general: he prepares for his voyage, at the actual trip he will make drawings, writings, photographs; in his studio back home these together with his thoughts and ideas will be transformed into books, prints, sketches, portfolios, articles.