ARTSHOP MAGAZINE
July 2006

Words
Pictures
Bound
Unbound
an introduction

Art Products come in all shapes and sizes, but what they have in common is an innate ability to make us think differently. Take, for example, Rob Christopher’s 100 Spinning Plates. It’s a novel on cards that you shuffle and read in no particular order. We paired Ric Kasini Kadour's loose folio of Speed of Light photographs with Raef Fanous's historical review of how the speed of light was measured. Stephen Schaub’s expertly-made hardcover book of twenty-five quadratones will unshackle your thinking about photography. We have bits of wisdom from Kadour’s humorous chapbook, How to Price Your Artwork.

Words and pictures, bound and unbound. The grouping of these four products is a comment on how we collect and receive art and literature, on how art and literature is presented and organized. It is also a sampling of how artists are presenting their work and ideas off the wall of a gallery or museum or outside of traditional publishing channels.

ArtShop invites you to explore and ponder the words and pictures in your own life, those bound and unbound.