A transdisciplinary visual artist, designer, researcher + professor
yolk is the founder of an independent artists’ book bindery,
T H U N G R Y based in Chicago, IL
T H U N G R Y currently operates as a design house + publishing initiative complicating book semantics through experimentation, queering, + praxis.
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- 3D printed covers
- risograph printed in fluorescent orange + violet
- text block laser cut to die fit covers
- drum leaf bind
- 5” x 7”
- Edition of 30
- 2022
- Manic Static Records
- sound engineering, Philip Lesicko
- printed in Chicago
- Friends + supporters of the bindery receive
- a holiday card
- 4.25” x 6”
- 2019 - 2023
Typeface: Rallisaguen Regular by DYSA studio
screen printed on canvas tote bags
edition of 40
2023
- in collaboration with Bench Press
- xerox book spreads
- found images
2022
a body of work exploring ‘Maternal Complex' made up of subgenres like mothernism, care work, reproductive design, rematriation, abortion access activism, reproductive justice and health care disparities in the US, container technics, matrescence, and the gestational state especially in queer folx exploring the intersectionalities between the Book + this kind of body.
mixed media
2022 - 23