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(Shirley Sharoff) Griffouillages [Doodles]. [Text and images by] Shirley Sharoff. [Paris. 1996.] n.p. 14” x 10.5”. One black and-white and five color etchings printed by the artist on Hahnemule in a portfolio. Text handset using Typewriter characters. Six etchings within a folder titled in turquoise with a front laser-printed doodle onlay which pulls open with a pink plastic ribbon. This is under a pink Moulin de Pombie paper square with the artist’s name on the front and which slips through a slit to the verso giving details of the concept in French. The inside back cover contains concept details in English on pink paper which continues through a slit to the back which contains hand-written colophon details with number and signature. A further laser-printed doodle opens out beneath this. Laid in a titled pink paper cover, with the front lined with blue corrugated paper and the back with white corrugated paper. Red paper board slipcase. One in an edition of 25 signed copies. Fine.

Sharoff writes: “A small press publisher, Richard Meier, suggested the idea to me of doing a portfolio of prints on the subject of Doodles. I made the prints but as this project never materialized, I decided to construct a book around them which would bring out the elements of fantasy and imagination. The etchings are compositions which use people’s doodles as a starting point. Many people in different types of jobs gave me their doodles, such as an office worker, a college professor, a director of a Limoges chinaware company … but the most prolific and inventive was a doctor from Reims who doodles her way through her patients’ phone calls and whose work is part of the laser-print fold-out on the front and back.

“… As there was very little written on the subject of Doodles, apart from connecting it to the Automatic writing of the Surrealist movement, I wrote the text myself.”

Related items: Artists' Books, Catalogue 36 - Summer 2008, Shirley Sharoff