Baake, Frans. — “Voor mevrouw Vos 31 december 2017”.

No place (Enschedé), self-published, 2017, fold-open board artist publication consisting of 2 yellow cloth covered board panels finished with blue paper on the inside with 6 mounted blank leaves, each plate with a multi-colour illustration, one plate with manuscript presentation / title, oblong quarto (20 x 29,8 cm.). = Presented as a New Year’s gift, signed “Frans”. 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.