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

$465