Sketched Memories

2022

“What began as an exercise to improve drawing techniques became a kind of illustrated diary, a huge volume of highly personal work that could only be shown together in the form of an artist book.”

Sketched Memories by Chamo San

Sketched Memories contains a selection of drawings made between 2011 and 2021. Divided into several sections, the most important is the “Diary”, which includes sketches from the artist’s closest circle (friends, relatives, couples, etc.).

The other chapters are dedicated to portraits of artists from the local scene, a section dedicated to carnets de voyage (the classic travel diaries) and another section dedicated to the process of elaboration of engraving and serial work created from some of the sketches made in the notebooks themselves. In addition, own texts and a small compilation of artworks exhibited in galleries are also included.

“For the last few years, I have been filling the pages of tens of sketchbooks this way, with portraits of friends, lovers, relatives, artists with whom I have shared the way, and some unknown person, too. Faces summarized in a few lines, or scenes delicately portrayed in the intimacy of home.”

Sketched Memories, 2022

Drawings by Chamo San
Graphic Design by Guirado Works

Edition: 1000
Collectors edition: 100
ISBN: 978-84-09-38578-2
Printed in Agpograf, Spain

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