Completed primarily during my scholarship at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich in 2010, each of the following images corresponds to one chapter of Joyce’s novel Ulysses. I began the project with postcard-sized, letterpress excerpts, hung on bulletin boards in my college student union and left anonymously in friends’ mailboxes.
The prints are an attempted continuation of Joyce’s linguistic exercises, intending to alter the time frame in which people move through a space in the same way he intended to alter the pace at which people read. I also wanted to explore what it means to “represent” another person’s creative work, and to manipulate the levels of signification of words and images. These prints attempt to highlight and magnify through a visual medium the semiotic discrepancies that arise between what we read and what we understand, with a focus on humor.
Telemachus, aquatint and handset letterpress, edition of 8
Nestor, drypoint, aquatint, and handset letterpress, edition of 8
Proteus, drypoint, aquatint, and handset letterpress, edition of 6
Calypso, woodcut with handset letterpress, edition of 6
Lotus Eaters, drypoint, etching, and aquatint with handset letterpress, edition of 6
Hades, woodcut with handset letterpress, edition of 6
Aeolus, handset letterpress and press furniture, edition of 6
Lestrygonians, etching and aquatint, edition of 6
Scylla and Charybdis, wooduct and handset letterpress, edition of 6
Wandering Rocks, woodcut and photopolymer letterpress, edition of 8
Sirens, linocut, press furniture, and monotype, edition of 6
Cyclops, woodcut with photopolymer letterpress, edition of 6
Nausicaa, drypoint, aquatint, linocut, and photopolymer letterpress, edition of 8
Oxen of the sun, woodcut, handset letterpress, edition of 8
Circe, woodcut, inkjet text, edition of 6
Nostos, etching, drypoint, acetone transfer, edition of 8
Eumaeus, drypoint, etching, photopolymer letterpress, edition of 8
Ithaca, monotype, photopolymer letterpress, edition of 8
Norah Maki 