WISLAWA

This album uses a quote from Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska employing texting as a means to allow the use of larger types in the letterpress process than would be normally possible. 'All is mine and nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.' Much like a jpeg photograph, the words compress when texted to fewer letters; however, when read, it 'resurrects' to the full wording. It allowed the effective use of pied wood type. 

11.25 x 7.25 inches (28.5 x 18.5 cm) when closed, extends to 11.75 x 30 inches (28.5 x 76 cm) when open. Accordion structure with four folds. Letterpress printed in multiple colors on 100% cotton paper. Black paper-covered boards with silver titling and multicolored thread tie closure. Signed and numbered, edition of 30.  

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.

$465