Alchemy of the planets

ALCHEMY OF THE PLANETS is an artist’s book of poems in Spanish by Mexican poet Carmen Boullosa, translated into English by Psiche Hughes, and inspired by images by artist Philip Hughes with Amy Petra Woodward.

Hughes’s images are printed at The Old School Press on an eight-colour Epson onto 225gsm Somerset Enhanced Velvet which is in turn mounted on a stygian-black Vélin Arches Noir paper echoing the blackness of space. This is then mounted on the inner right-hand side of a fold of 330gsm Somerset Velvet, the inner left-hand side carrying Boullosa’s poetic response to the image in Spanish and English – pies and cantos. The texts are printed in hand-set 18pt Hunt Roman and printed letterpress at The Old School Press.

Jump of the Manta Ray / Salto de Mantarraya

An artists book on the poem by Carmen Boullosa, translated by Psiche Hughes and published by Martyn Ould at the Old School Press. The book includes twenty large images on separate sheets in a portfolio. Twenty-nine further small images are interspersed through the text, and two further large images appear in the book as frontispiece and tailspiece. The text has been printed letterpress in 14pt Monotype Octavian on 175gsm Somerset Book paper. The book and images from it have been exhibited at Drill Hall Gallery, Australia; Star Gallery, Sussex and Chateau La Nerthe, France. Printed in an edition of 75 it is in mainly public collections including British Library, The City Library, New York and The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
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Elysian Garden

An artists book on the poem by Carmen Boullosa, translated by Psiche Hughes and published by Taller Magenta, Monterrey, Mexico. The book includes six lithographs printed at the publishers workshop in Monterrey. The book and associated prints and designs were exhibited at MARCO, Mexico and the V&A, London.