Ao sopro da terra
Luís Lopes
(Because of the personal nature of this project, the synopsis was written in the first person)
Developed from the selection of three objects representing three different people — my grandfather, my mother and myself —, Ao Sopro da Terra grows out of an exploratory journey through grief, memory, tenderness and nostalgia. A tribute to the lives of two people I lost far too soon.
The book is a dialogue between photographs and illustrations that paint memories, more or less clear, of a poem written from the three chosen objects. Ao Sopro da Terra was printed using the cyanotype technique on a book made of unbleached cotton cloth, going through a bleaching and toning process to change the original color of the cyanotype.
Mental landscapes, physical landscapes, landscapes that no longer are, traces, recollections, and the passing of time.
Imprint / Technical Rider:
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 150 × 200 × 12 mm; 24 pages
Materials: Cyanotype process, bleached with sodium carbonate and toned with black tea; printed on unbleached cotton cloth.
Production and finishing: Hand-sewn binding.
Resources and credits: Typefaces: Old Newspaper Types (Manfred Klein) and hand lettering.
Curricular Unit:
Illustration Contexts and Practices (1st year)
Supervising Professor:
Rui Vitorino Santos
Keywords: Illustration, Alternative Printing Techniques, Book-Artifact