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. Rarely is any part produced using digital methods, and if so it is clearly indicated, and only when no other options were available.
$1150