storybook

(ink on paper, scanned and 'booked')

comic rip

digital print/ 2012. 14x22 inches.

asemic calligraphy - triptych

chinese ink on gold paper / 8.5" x 11" each page

"an unauthorized account"

Continuing to be intrigued by the language of abstract forms and by the possibility/ impossibility of  narrative, I found myself entrenched in this project called "An Unauthorized Account." It will have several iterations based on the same imagery. Since it is 'unauthorized' who can determine which is the definitive version? So far it exists as a commercially printed book and as a book-collage, unique piece. Eventually it will be a video and perhaps even an abstract wall-comic with gigantic speech balloons. Or even tiny ones. 

black and white. 9”x6”. 56 pages.

"An Unauthorized Account" is a graphic novella with asemic writing. Asemic writing has no semantic value but that doesn't make it useless. This visual  narrative is domestic, indeterminate and subliminal.

hardcover/ dust jacket: $20.00

http://www.lulu.com/shop/rosaire-appel/an-unauthorized-account/hardcover/product-20371158.html

 paperback: $15 / temporarily discounted to $12.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/rosaire-appel/an-unauthorized-account/paperback/product-20335940.html

Book-collage / unique piece. 32 pages, 5.5" x 6" / NFS

Collage/ Assemblage Centinnial - 1912-2012

http://collageassemblagecentennial-1912-2012.blogspot.com/search/label/Rosaire.Appel

"They went back & forth until dawn"

A small one-of-a-kind book and a collage will be on view at Proteus Gowanus Gallery in Brooklyn, opening September 15.

http://proteusgowanus.org/battle/

sketchbook

For these collage-drawings I used ripped-up proofs of some of my published books and pencil, which I pasted into a stripped down kid's book, the kind with cardboard pages. Making it was a little summer vacation using unstructured and open-ended time... It's small, about 5"/ 26 pages.