Every time Ana María Caballero dedicates one of her books to its future reader, she honors their role in bringing literature to life. Signature Labels transforms this reverence into analog generative art.
The first page of each of her six books has been converted into a wine label, which Caballero hand-signed in a unique way, leaving space for the collector to insert their name, personalizing the dedication. This collaborative element adds a layer of generativity to the final label or artwork. It also allows for the possibility that the bottle will be gifted to another person, whose name the collector may incorporate into the label, acknowledging the long tradition of offering wine as a gift.
Signature Labels reveals how the act of signing ennobles an object, bestowing a book or an artwork with a powerful intention that spills beyond its physical bounds. This series also futhers Caballero’s explorations of analog generativity, where hand-written annotations serve to celebrate the ways readers and writers construct each other and paper’s eloquence as a message in and of itself.
