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published by ttbbooks (The Temporary Bookshelf imprint)
121x175 mm
32 pages
Risograph printing
Munken Pure 120 gsm (cover) / Munken Pure 100 gsm (inside)
Saddle stich binding
160 copies
Printed in Helsinki by If by Magic
ISBN 978-952-88-0719-3
“Wheat, Wood, Wool is a collection of drawings dating from 2023 to 2025, a period when I trained in sourdough baking after meeting female farmers and bakers in France. It was also when I gradually put aside the idea of making a living from drawing. I wanted to work with something concrete, simple materials, to produce something that everyone could appreciate. I wanted to cut out the noise of Instagram and take a step back. But it’s difficult to completely redefine your aspirations, and images always pop up. When Hikari asked me to do a book for ttbooks, I was excited but also scared. In the end, I did what I know how to do: mix emotions, desires, ideas, colours. Using drawings from my sketchbooks over the last few years, I painted a story that connects everything and makes sense, like when I try to find coherence in my life.
At the same time, I wondered about setting up a small bakery, working for myself. And I remembered what drawing can do: make all fantasies visible. So here are my dreams of an anti-tech bakery, fair, beautiful, good, mysterious.” Chloé Bertron
Biography
Chloé Bertron (b. 1992) is an illustrator who graduated from the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (HEAR, Strasbourg) in 2017. She draws naïve, fantastical worlds focused on nature and love.
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