Aperture No. 263

Aperture No. 263, Summer 2026, Secrets, Smells Like Print, Aaron Schuman speaks with TBW's Paul Schiek about the highs and lows of bookmaking. 

Excerpt:

AS: Is there an example of a book you’ve produced that fully embraces the idea of the book as an object?

PS: I think Nicotine (2024) by TR Ericsson. TR made these artworks by printing old family photographs onto screens, then passed nicotine through the screens onto paper, making a printed physical object that smells like and is essentially created from nicotine and cigarette smoke. The challenge for me then became how to translate that into a book.