The octavo-sized book “Complicity” is all hand printed, 60 pages with foil stamping and die-cut on a translucent cover wrap, over a duplex color cover board. It is printed letterpress on Japanese paper using the Garamond typeface. It contains 14 original woodcuts by Dirk Hagner, along with 13 poems by Peter Morrison. All 35 copies of the edition are numbered and signed by the author and the artist. It measures 8 3/8 by 5 3/8 inches, (21.25 x 13.6 cm).
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.
$675