The Sound of Paper

Chris Duncan, artist

born 1974

The Sound of Paper, 2012

Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Material/technique: plastic record sleeve; Laser engraved relief print; embossing plate; stamping; paper record sleeves; screen print

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): closed record cover 318 x 310 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 1/2 x 12 3/16 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): open record cover 318 x 625 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 1/2 x 24 5/8 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): colophon 205 x 205 mm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 8 1/16 x 8 1/16 in
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): record sleeve 305 x 310 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 x 12 3/16 in
Object Diameter (Diameter): paper record 303 mm
Object Diameter (Diameter): 11 15/16 in

Credit line: Gift of the KU Department of Visual Art, Printmaking Area

Accession number: 2012.0043

Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond

The California-based artist Chris Duncan works in multiple media that include performance, video, and records. This print explores the many possible sensory experiences that a work on paper can evoke, while reducing the visual element to the repetition of a simple phrase. With the help of students and faculty members at KU, he modified a record-player to play paper “records.” As a result, the prints are literally capable of presenting the sound of paper.

Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond

To create a screen print, a printmaker uses a squeegee to force ink through a stencil onto a given surface. Each stencil must be affixed to its own mesh screen, and every color requires a separate stencil. The screen printer pushes ink through the mesh-covered stencil onto a sheet of paper or other surface waiting below. As ink passes through the mesh an image adheres to the substrate. Silk can be used as the mesh, and the process has traditionally been referred to as silkscreen printing or serigraph printing. Today common screen printing meshes consist of polyester and other synthetic threads.

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