Accordion style book with 8 panels, between 3.25 and 4.25 inches width, by 12 inches tall, with varying size pop-out text panels. Printed on doubled 300 gm Swedish Lessebo stock with embedded delicate Chinese colored shuen (xuan) papers: straw, bark, and jade, which allow light to filter through.
Monochrome painted portraits of the sisters are featured in the book, adjacent to the only verified facsimiles of their male pseudonym signatures.
Letterpress printed text using 16pt Cochin type. Colophon on the last panel in 12pt Cochin. Cover boards wrapped in hand-made Indian paper with titles and 3 button-and-string closures. Measures 12 x 4.25 x 0.75 inches (30.5 x 11 x 2 cm) closed, opens to 12 x 31 x 3 inches (30.5 x 79 x 4 cm). Edition of 12 copies, numbered and signed. Stored in a dedicated box, 14 x 4.5 x 0.75 inches (35.5 x 11.5 x 2cm).
My artist books, broadsides, and loose-leaf editions are published in very small numbers, as low as five. All are hand-printed and hand-bound (in the case of books) by me, all are signed and numbered. While I am trying to be perfect, I am human, not a machine. Some variations in the editioned work are to be expected due to the processes, materials, and the artist’s change of mind. It is exactly what makes the work collectible: each piece is an original work of art. The pieces employ printmaking like original etchings, woodcuts, carborundum, screen prints, monotype, monoprint, and letterpress. Nothing is produced using digital reproduction methods.
$1,800