Copepodilia Collectanea
$1,800.00
2022
Edition of 20
- Accordion bound with paper wrapper
- Letterpress and pigment prints
- Sectioned clamshell box
- 78 pages
- Box 12″ x 12″ x 4″
Copepodilia Collectanea presents an imaginary menagerie of copepods – minuscule aquatic crustaceans – created using seaweed pressings. High resolution pigment prints of the pressings retain the textures and dimensionality of the original images.
The book is structured as an accordion in a paper sleeve, housed in a clamshell box. With seventy-eight pages, the entire book stretches to nearly ten meters in length. Text by Melanie Stiassny, ichthyologist at the American Museum of Natural History, introduces the fundamentals of copepod life.
The archival pigment prints are on Canson Infinity Aquarelle, and the letterpress pages at the beginning and end of the book are printed on Rives BFK with washi hinges. The clamshell box is constructed of archival book board covered with pigment prints on Moenkopi kozo, and contains a unique piece of seaweed from the Pacific coastline in northern California.