Coumba Samba – Abstract Coloring Book women artists and investigation of the idea

and investigation of the idea of disappearance

It’s no mistake that Lenard Smith’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name

Jan Wenzel is a writer and publisher based in Leipzig and co-founder of Spector Books

on local customs and cultural practices

since its restoration

Coumba Samba – Abstract Coloring Book women artists and investigation of the ideaA colouring book conceived as an artist book. Coumba Sambas publication prompts you to explore geometric forms and structures with a small set of coloured pencils. Using those simple materials one realises how interaction and experimentation challenge again and again the relationship between colour, abstraction and internalised form systems.