Baake, Frans. — Proefexemplaar ‘isLANDings’.

Enschedé, self-published, 2007, 11 leaves (recto only) each with an identical b/w photograph of a remote island scene to the right and to the left a colour-printed linocut with horizontal text referring to a different location and a vertical word referring to a means of transport (such as waterplane, bus, swim, steamer, etc.), original artist-made red cloth with mounted olive green cloth printed title-label and grey cloth spine, yellow endpapers, oblong folio (30,2 x 42,8 cm.). = Proof-copy, presented as a New Year’s gift to mevrouw E. Vos, with printed cloth lettered title-shield mounted to frontcover. First free endpaper autograph signed and dated “’07” and with “31-12-’07 van harte gefeliciteerd!” in pen. During his travels, Frans Baake makes sketches, photos and notes. The journey is then translated into a work of art, namely an artist's book, which he publishes himself in a small edition. In artists' books, the image usually dominates. The countless artist books that Baake has made are full of photos, woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, collages and texts. The books are not literally about his travels and are therefore not comparable to the way we make our photo album or diary after a holiday. Baake’s way of working is similar in general: he prepares for his voyage, at the actual trip he will make drawings, writings, photographs; in his studio back home these together with his thoughts and ideas will be transformed into books, prints, sketches, portfolios, articles.