Hippalus Winds
Orlando FL: Rachel Simmons, 2024. Softcover. Number 5 of 13 copies. This is a complex and intriguing recent work from Rachel Simmons on the ever fascinating subjects of travel and exploration. She is a well established, book artist and print maker who organizes and participates in socially engaging community projects. Her work is informed by science, philosophy, memory, creativity, and activism. Racel teaches at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, directs the Rollins Book Arts Collection, and serves on the board of CBAA, The Association for Book Art Education. Her work can be found in prestigious public and private collections across the U.S.
Hippolus is an ancient Greek mariner credited in Pliny the Elder's Periplus of the Erythyaean Sea with the discovery in 45 AD of the pattern of monsoon winds.These winds enabled ships to leave Ocelis near Aden in the spring and arrive at the west coast of south India[2] in forty days. Then in the autumn the pattern of winds reversed allowing an equally speedy return from India. This resulted in a dramatic increase in trade between the Indian and the Greco-Roman world. This golden age of east-west sea trade lasted until Islamic expansion captured the ports in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire .[Wikipedia] Ellen describes her book:"This work is based on classic tales of early ocean exploration and my experienrce 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. 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. "
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.With multiple fold-out pages in different colors, It is on French paper, with paint markers, laser-cut vellum with digital prints, metal rivets, and laser-engraved wood. Includes digitally printed wrapper enclosure in which the book is held. In fine condition. Closed 8.5” tall x 11” wide x .25” deep. Open 8.5” tall x 20” wide x .5” deep. Unpaginated. ARTB/061326. Fine.
Item #38344
Price: $350.00