This is a concertina-style book with alternating pop-up and inverted windows for Ferlinghetti's poem. The verses are screen printed, plus letterpress printed titles and colophon, using the Bangla NM typeface.
Hand-printed on 335 gm Coventry rag paper. Covers are wrapped in hand-made paper with a printed title. Woodcuts on the inside front and back covers.
The book comes in a dedicated box with a printed title. Edition of 10 copies, signed and numbered. When closed the book measures 9 x 5.25 x 1 inch 23 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm) when opened for display the dimensions are 9 x 50 x 4 inches (23 x 125 x 10 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.
$1150