Residency Program
Artist’s Publications
2022
We are excited to share the work of our 2022 MUUS Collection and Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residents. Please consider purchasing a book, and supporting the continued growth of this program into the future.
Limited quantities of all publications will be available directly from Penumbra at the book launch:
Thursday, April 13th, 6pm, at Penumbra Foundation.
Down a Stream
Jenica Heintzelman
“Down a Stream explores the idea of how unresolved trauma can live in the physical body. Stemming from my own participation in mind-body interventions, I became fascinated with the notion of healing and the role of performance and belief in the process. The book includes reenactments of different healing modalities focusing on touch as well as mysterious domestic spaces. A world made of familiar spaces and gestures is transformed into strange encounters with themes of visual entrapment and an undercurrent of disquietude. Heavily influenced by hypnotherapy, the predominant purple ink evokes a dreamlike state and fragmented texts in metallic gold are rewritten portions from actual hypnosis sessions that shimmer in and out of legibility. Half pages are interspersed throughout the book to conceal and reveal information, referencing the disjointed memory that is so often associated with trauma. Tense muscles, bodies lifting other bodies and awkward embraces create an enigmatic experience with no easy resolution—a reflection of a healing process, at once unsettling and never fully complete.”
–Jenica Heintzelman
Pages: 78
Binding: Perfect (PUR)
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Mohawk Via, Neenah Astrobright, Newsprint
Size: 9.75" × 12"
Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Purple, Gold, Red, Yellow)
Typeface: Burgess by Colophon
Price: $75
This place I call home whispers fragments of secrets to me
Cince Johnston
“This place i call home whispers fragments of secrets to me is about my interior journey through the landscape of dualities that arose during the dark days of Covid 19. Set against the physical backdrop of my ancient family house, it is an existential navigation between angst and acceptance, darkness and light, where documenting my children became a soulful preoccupation, a distraction amidst the dichotomy of serenity and restless urgency. Possessed by the desire to slow down time before everything quickly changed in their lives and mine, I sought delight and distraction in the unfolding of their youthful lives. I always thought I made photographs not to forget, the pandemic showed me that I also made them to forget.”
–Cince Johnston
Pages: 88
Binding: Hand Sewn (Kettle Stitch, Linen Thread)
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Leader Basis Vellum
Size: 7.5" × 10"
Edition: 80
Printing: Risograph (Black), Foil Stamp (cover)
Typeface: Sabon by Tschichold
Price: $75
Sponsor
The MUUS Collection / Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency is supported by a generous gift from the MUUS Collection, an organization with a mission to make visible their photography collection and archives through exhibitions, scholarship, donations, licensing, and the printing of images and books.