Our artist book, Studies on Precipitation, began as a collaborative project and slowly transformed into a correspondence via text, email, and post as one of us moved out of Berlin in the middle of the collaboration. This back and forth ultimately grew into a strong, mutually beneficial friendship. The idea from the beginning was to fuse our interests and knowledge that we have individually gathered from working in the self-publishing artist book scene. We played with photography, illustration, bookbinding, riso printing, and free form word association - closely collaborating and balancing artistic input every step of the way - from early conversations in conceptualizing the project to every aspect of the content as well as the minutia of binding and printing. This meant sending scans of sketches, drawings, and photos, brainstorming printing methods, sending letters with test prints, and keeping close contact about the overall direction of the book. We are very proud of the final outcome as this was our first project together and we were able to follow through with our vision, with just a few hiccups and a lot of adapting along the way.

Studies On Precipitation 

Our photo and illustration book project, Studies On Precipitation, was self-published and handbound by us late last year. 

This collaboration between two bookmakers, a photographer and an illustrator, emerged via intuitive conversations around aesthetics, mood, and play which then informed the overall process of illustration and design. These conversations found a balance between absurd beauty and the practicalities of craftsmanship. 

While it received a launch party last November in Berlin, 2020 was going to be its year of spreading out into the world, like a soft cloud overhead. With zine festivals and art book fairs being cancelled, our riso-printed book lost the opportunity to travel and meet people not only in Berlin but across Germany and throughout Europe, as we have been travelling the zine fest and art book fair circuit in Europe both independently, together, and with other publishers throughout the past years. This opportunity of receiving not only money but exposure through ARTCONNECT would help with covering production costs as well as showing our book off to a wider audience.

There are no rules to break, one can simply float.

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Rada Nastai