This book interpretation of Charles Bukowski’s “Spring Wan” is using a fold-up based on the common wine bottle separator. The book covers are foldable so that they become the display stand of the book. Five interlocking cut shapes become a dimensional display, made from duplex board, each panel carrying a line from Charles Bukowski’s poem “Spring Swan”. Screen printed. The book folds flat again inside its covers.
Displayed the book measures 10 x 14 x 6.5 inches (25.4 x 35.5 x 16.5 cm), when closed 14 x 7 x 0.3 inches (35.5 x 18 x 0.75 cm). Signed and numbered, 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. Rarely is any part produced using digital methods, and if so it is clearly indicated, and only when no other options were available.