HONDARTZA FRAGA

This forms part of the series, Books to Sea which was made during a maritime research project. Hondartza Fraga says: “I love old books, especially the ones that show their age, the decaying grandeur of their leather covers and gold embossing. Seduced by the elaborate covers I started taking pencil rubbings of the embossed titles and designs, an art technique also known as frottage. Progressively, my attention was drawn away from the figurative embossed designs on the books and towards the textured covers. They suddenly reminded me of the sea glimpsed from a plane window: a static sea, opaque, solid and impenetrable as mountains. The sea from the pages somehow had filtered out to the outer skin of the book.”