Editioned books
Showing all 7 resultsSorted by latest
for shipping outside of the US, please email your address. thanks!
Mountain to Sea
Edition of 50
-
- Archival pigment prints on handmade paper with mica
- Double accordion bound with mica covers
- 26 pages
- Book: 1.875 x 2.5 x .25 Fully extended: 35.5" long
-
Clamshell box with inner porfolio: 2.5 x 3.75 x 1”
Mountain to Sea is an ode to Earth’s geology. One side acknowledges the impact of rain on the earth’s surface, washing mica and other minerals into the oceans.
The flip side presents a mathematical conundrum. If rain is continually wearing down mountains and washing them into the sea, how long will it be before the continents cease to exist, and all is water?
Book, folio, and box are of handmade paper with mica. Archival pigment prints, suminagashi, hand painted cover.
Ostracod Rising
Edition of 26
-
- archival pigment prints
- Accordion bound with printed washi
- Housed in a portfolio with interior wrapper
- 26 pages
- 21.75” x 16.25” x 1” (approx. 34' fully extended)
Ostracod Rising tells the story of Earth’s past from 104 million years in the future. Beginning with the formation of Earth in the Hadean Eon, each page factually describes a distinct period of time throughout the ages. It then moves from our current Holocene into an imaginary yet highly plausible future consisting of the Anthropocene, Benthoscene, Silerecene, and finally the Ostracocene.
Each page’s timeline covers the emergence and extinction of species, changes in atmosphere and climate, geologic and oceanic events, and the occasional asteroid collision. Large watercolor images of small creatures dominate each page, alongside other elements including day length, atmospheric content, continental drift, and the distance to our slowly receding moon.
A portfolio of book board is bound with luxurious Japanese Asahi book cloth in deep eggplant. An inner 4-flap wrapper holds the book. The wrapper is of heavy Asuka washi, printed with drawings of single-celled organisms. Lokta paper completes the inner lining of the portfolio.
Kingdom Aqueous
Edition of 24
- Archival pigment prints on Hiromi asuka
- Headbands, gilding
- Concertina bound in hardcover
- 104 pages (12 8-page gatefolds, 1 4-page concertina fold)
- 7.5" x 5.25" x 1"
Photographed in the tide pools at Salt Point State Park in northern California over a period of twelve years, Kingdom Aqueous is an ode to the creatures who live in this wild interstitial zone at the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Printed full bleed, these images disclose the intense vibrancy and other-worldly architecture of life beneath these cold and stormy northern waters.
Kingdom Aqueous is constructed of twelve doubled folios, each a gatefold. The full-bleed archival pigment prints are on Hiromi asuka. A separate 4-page pull-out contains the colophon. Hardcover.
Helianthus
Edition of 12
-
- archival pigment prints & inks
- Arches BFK Rives & Lokta papers
- 69 pages
- 22"h x 8"w x 2.5"d closed, 40"diam. x 2.5"d open
- Box 22.5"l x 9.25"w x 3.25"d closed
- $1800
A single sunflower was disassembled and then each petal and sepal, along with a tiny floret from the center, were scanned at high resolution. The scans are printed on BFK Rives and backed with Lokta papers. The backside of the petals are printed with the text of the book in archival ink. The text describes the evolution, physical attributes, and human engagements of the sunflower, culminating in a metaphorical anecdote related to climate change.
Constructed of 69 pages - 34 petals and 34 sepals relating to the Fibonacci sequence and one representative disc floret. Single leaf binding with a Chicago screw bolt, and housed in a fabric and davey board box.
Copepodilia Collectanea
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.
Restless Dust Postcards
2010
Edition of 100
- A set of 4 postcards, separated by perforation
- Sheet of "stamps"
- Letterpress and pigment prints
- 6" x 4", signed and numbered
Restless Dust Postcards is the accompanying trade edition of Restless Dust. It includes an accordion-fold set of four postcards separated by perforation. The postcards are letterpress and the sheet of stamps are archival pigment prints. Text and images come from the Restless Dust book. The text of the book invites Charles Darwin's ghost to sail to present day San Francisco and wander with me through the greater Bay Area. The focus of the journey is three-fold: to celebrate Northern California's unique species; to examine Darwin's legacy and its impact on the Bay Area; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of local flora and fauna, beleaguered by environmental degradation during Darwin's time and my own. Created while in residence with the Imprint at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
The title is a remix of a quote from Mary Wollstonecraft: "It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."
Restless Dust
2010
Edition of 50
- Housed in wooden box with two paper birds, velvet, electronics
- Sewn binding in leather wrapper
- Letterpress and pigment prints
- 80 pages
- Box 12" x 12" x 4"
Restless Dust is a multimedia work housed in a two-tiered wooden box. The top portion holds a letterpress leather-bound artist's book separated by Plexiglas from a velvet-lined chamber containing two illuminated paper birds (activated when the box lid is opened). The text invites Charles Darwin's ghost to sail to present day San Francisco and wander with me through the greater Bay Area. The focus of the journey is three-fold: to celebrate Northern California's unique species; to examine Darwin's legacy and its impact on the Bay Area; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of local flora and fauna, beleaguered by environmental degradation during Darwin's time and my own. The book was created while in residence with the Imprint at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
The stories of each place that we visit are organized loosely around the mnemonic VISTA for studying evolution: Variety, Inheritance, Selection, Time, and Adaptation. We visit with Ishi, examine a crime database filled with DNA, and relax at a dispensary. Venus fly traps, gooseneck mussels, tule elk, redwoods, mountain lions, and the albino alligotor of San Francisco's Academy of Science accompany our journey. We set invasive mitten crabs afloat on miniature floating funeral pyres, bemoan the buffalo in Golden Gate Park, and Darwin sheds tears over the loss of his daughter. We agree to meet again in another one hundred years, all in all a good day.
The title is a remix of a quote from Mary Wollstonecraft: "It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."