Sarah Schorr Portfolios

Making The Color of Water Book: Working at the Intersection of Analog and Digital

The Color of Water: Sarah Schorr (2021 Published by Galleri Image, printed at Narayana Press in Denmark)

Signed by artist, Edition of 300. Designed by Blake Ogden and Sarah Schorr. Words by Elizabeth Avedon and Anne Marie Kragh Pahuus.

Materials and Scale

Paper: arctic volume white 250g

22 folds, 23 pages (both sides)

Size: 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm

Box: handcrafted in Germany by Ermonis

Describing the Portfolio

The Color of Water by Sarah Schorr is an investigation of one of our life sustaining elements: water. What is the color of water? Opaque, transparent or translucent, entering water can delineate both a physical passage and a metaphysical pathway. Silver to black to emerald green: water is often not blue. Sometimes the sea is a rolling red from deep sea algae. Assisted by the waterscape, these transitions open us to different reflective experiences, sparking introspection about attention, physicality, and mobility in our media-saturated landscape.

At dusk and dawn, colors fluctuate into metallic, iridescent hues. Along the coast, the angle of illumination shifts. colors stimulate mood; water becomes reflection. In 1814, Abraham Werner published a nomenclature organizing color around minerals to make a "standard." extending these charts to metallics, Sarah Schorr opens the grid to the infinite task of charting the ephemeral emotion in color. the question becomes: how does the heart tint the lens and complicate the standard?

Designing the Book

In form, this is an accordion book, inspired by an all-season stairway to the sea on the Danish coast.

This book is meant to be held.

This book is meant to be unfurled as it stretches out like a vast ocean.

In organization, this book is inspired by a geologist’s early attempt to chart and name the colors.

This book is reversible and conceals or reveals the depth of cool or warm color charts.

This book is a voyage through shades of cerulean blue to metallic orange then crossing over to silvery oceanic green and all the shades between.

In fabrication, this book is informed by longstanding, analog handcrafted bookmaking techniques as well as by the inventions and interventions of digital technology.

This book takes its shape from intensive collaboration over Zoom between Denmark and the US during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This book is formed from the conscious melding of physical and digital processes, composite images sparked by the understated beauty of human form dancing in water and light enhanced by fleeting color studies.

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Making The Color of Water Book: Working at the Intersection of Analog and Digital

The Color of Water: Sarah Schorr (2021 Published by Galleri Image, printed at Narayana Press in Denmark)

Signed by artist, Edition of 300. Designed by Blake Ogden and Sarah Schorr. Words by Elizabeth Avedon and Anne Marie Kragh Pahuus.

Materials and Scale

Paper: arctic volume white 250g

22 folds, 23 pages (both sides)

Size: 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm

Box: handcrafted in Germany by Ermonis

Describing the Portfolio

The Color of Water by Sarah Schorr is an investigation of one of our life sustaining elements: water. What is the color of water? Opaque, transparent or translucent, entering water can delineate both a physical passage and a metaphysical pathway. Silver to black to emerald green: water is often not blue. Sometimes the sea is a rolling red from deep sea algae. Assisted by the waterscape, these transitions open us to different reflective experiences, sparking introspection about attention, physicality, and mobility in our media-saturated landscape.

At dusk and dawn, colors fluctuate into metallic, iridescent hues. Along the coast, the angle of illumination shifts. colors stimulate mood; water becomes reflection. In 1814, Abraham Werner published a nomenclature organizing color around minerals to make a "standard." extending these charts to metallics, Sarah Schorr opens the grid to the infinite task of charting the ephemeral emotion in color. the question becomes: how does the heart tint the lens and complicate the standard?

Designing the Book

In form, this is an accordion book, inspired by an all-season stairway to the sea on the Danish coast.

This book is meant to be held.

This book is meant to be unfurled as it stretches out like a vast ocean.

In organization, this book is inspired by a geologist’s early attempt to chart and name the colors.

This book is reversible and conceals or reveals the depth of cool or warm color charts.

This book is a voyage through shades of cerulean blue to metallic orange then crossing over to silvery oceanic green and all the shades between.

In fabrication, this book is informed by longstanding, analog handcrafted bookmaking techniques as well as by the inventions and interventions of digital technology.

This book takes its shape from intensive collaboration over Zoom between Denmark and the US during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This book is formed from the conscious melding of physical and digital processes, composite images sparked by the understated beauty of human form dancing in water and light enhanced by fleeting color studies.