Night for Day was created during the later part of the pandemic as a reflection on the tenuousness of life, our connection to others, and on a parallel kind of default resilience. Each page of collage and text, in accordion book style, moves back and forth between day and night as loose metaphors for light and darkness. Not as literal states of being, but rather as a way to explore nuance and complexity in these polarities. The choice to move between the two over the course of sixteen pages is also a response to the passing of time and to regenerative possibilities. This limited edition accordion book is created from a giclée print of the original, fully expanded, 68” book, assembled and finished with a handmade cover. Each cover band is unique, with the title typewritten on a fragment of old, repurposed book pages.
Michelle Lynn Dyrness is an artist currently based in Sacramento, CA on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Nisenan, Maidu, and Patwan Wintun Peoples. Publications include Square Confits (Overground Underground Books, UK), Midnight Grotesques (Sublunary Editions) with Tristan Foster, and extracts from So Went the Hour in its Makeshift Dress (The Blasted Tree), among others. Find out more at www.michellelynndyrness.com.
