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Erik Schmitt Projects

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Book Sketchbook

In a Palermo bookstore, I found an old book printed on laid paper with untrimmed pages—intonso, untouched. I transformed it into a traveling sketchbook, responding to marks and symbols encountered in the landscape.

Working with found printed materials, gouache, ink, and graphite, I trimmed each page before beginning. When I reached the book's end, the project concluded.

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