PLEATED TIDINGS


This is a vertical accordion book titled “Pleated Tidings” that features a quote from William Butler Yeats: “I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly for you tread on my dreams.”

Woodcut in 3 colors with red and gray letterpress text on 250 gm rag paper. The back of this piece folds into a horizontal triangle that acts like a stand-off when the book is pinned through aligned eyelet holes to a wall – its intended way of display.
13.75 x 44 inches (35 x 112 cm) unfolded, 13.75 x 5.125 inches (35 x 13 cm) when closed. Edition of 15.

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.

$650

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DIRK HAGNER • INKSWINE PRESS/INTERROBANG BOOKS

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