Tracing the Lines

This enlightening look inside the work of celebrated artist Remy Jungerman traces how the patterns and shapes seen in twentieth-century Maroon shoulder capes from Suriname as well as the quilts of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have influenced his recent body of work. A journey through time, memory and culture, Tracing the Lines also tells the larger story of how geometric patterns from West Africa made their way across the ocean to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade. The design is based on the visible grid structures in Remy’s work. The paragraphs are set with indents that create three different column widths and therefore have a similar looking block pattern. This repeats itself throughout the book and is in dialogue with the images. The cover has an inside-out American fold that displays the quilt and is wrapped as a blanket with the title on the inside.


Year 2024
Client Remy Jungerman
Location New York
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Printer Graphius

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