BY MOOD

Pantone Series

It all begins with a mood, a favorite phrase. Imagined during the pandemic. Each is made of layers upon layers of beautifully cut paper and then compressed to reveal a quirky and startling gradient of colors.

“The last year was one of the most challenging times of my life. The global pandemic caught me in the midst of a new personal journey but forced me to stay thousands of miles away from my parents and siblings.   

As a deaf person, I spend most of my adult life among hearing people, doing my best to communicate using sign language and lip-reading.  I never felt that being deaf prevented me from doing anything, but with the pandemic putting a screen on every face, blocking the communication with the deaf and hard of hearing, I became disabled for the first time in my life.   

Trying to stay optimistic and looking forward to a brighter future, I surround myself with reassuring and inspiring notes containing short messages to counter my actual feelings and remind me that better times are yet to come.  

In each note, I tried to combine a verbal, visual, and textural message that reflects my hope for a better future. The result is a set of 12, three-dimensional, paper designs called, Pantone.”

-Yossi Ben Abu

Pantone, 2021

Colored paper, pigmented ink, adhesive

6 x 8 in UNFRAMED

700 EACH

in editions of 5