Titan & Weald. Isak Applin, 3457 82nd St. #6C, Jackson Heights, NY 11372, USA. Tel: +1773 456 8801. Website: https://titanandweald.com/home.html.
Isak Applin. Oh, the Wind and Rain. 2022. 29 pages. 255 x 170 mm. Monotype Bembo on dampened white Zerkall Book, 10 wood engravings by Applin. Printed on Albion iron handpress. 30 copies: 22 bound in-house at Titan & Weald, quarter-bound in black cloth and Evergreen Bugra papers with design printed in black, label on spine, price: $575; 8 sets of the engravings printed on loose sheets and encased in portfolios, including title page, contents page, epigraph and colophon (total of 14 sheets printed recto, 265 x 185 mm), and enclosed in drop-spine boxes (290 x 200 x 20 mm) covered in black cloth and Evergreen Bugra papers and made by Campbell-Logan Bindery, price: $575.
The ten wood engravings were feverishly drawn during the early months of the Covid pandemic, while the constant wail of ambulances surrounded the artist’s home and studio in Queens. The prints attempt to record the trauma of the moment and recall a world that suddenly vanished.