Hippalus winds
Hippalus Winds
Limited edition artist’s book, 2024, edition of 13. Stab-bound with risograph prints, paint markers, laser-cut vellum, metal rivets and engraved wood.
Based on classic tales of early ocean exploration and my experiences traveling by ship to Antarctica and around the Galàpagos Islands, Hippalus Winds pairs found imagery with excerpts from the fictional diaries of two first-century CE explorers. Stab-bound with metal rivets and engraved wood, the sequence of vividly-colored risograph prints contains fanciful nautical maps crawling with sea monsters and cannibals, and early illustrations of the Earth as a dome-covered disc. The voices of Eudoxus a wealthy Greek privateer, and his navigator Hippalus, who discovered the passage from the Red Sea to India by predicting monsoon winds, alternate between regret and intrigue as they experience stormy seas, visit unknown islands and make new discoveries.