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Copepodilia Collectanea
2022
Edition of 20
- Sectioned clamshell box
- Accordion bound with paper wrapper
- Letterpress and pigment prints
- 80 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. 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.
Helianthus
Edition of 12
- Arches BFK Rives and Lokta papers
- Archival pigment prints and inks
- 69 pages
- 54cm x 20cm x 6cm: book
- 106cm diameter: book fully open
- 56cm x 21cm x 7cm: box
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 bark-paper box.
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Hexapodarium
- Debossed hardcover in dust jacket
- Smyth bound, headbands, gilding
- Offset printed
- 120 pages, 100+ color images
- 10" x 8.25" x .75"
What might houseflies, who evolved 65 million years ago, look like 65 million years in the future? Wight created a series of prints in 2014 in which flies have evolved to mimic familiar flowers: daisies, calla lilies, tulips and astors.
Now, all sixty-four original prints have been gathered together in this gorgeous herbarium designed by Michelle Frey. With essays by Iain Boal and Meredith Tromble, this herbarium contains many additional photos, a conversation between Lawrence Weschler and Gail Wight, a Latin dictionary of flower names, and four full-bleed spreads of Wight’s work Land of the Flies.
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.
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 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."
Main edition is sold out. A small number of artist's proofs are available.
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."