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2001 - 2005 ravenpress publications alphabetized by title.
All dimensions are in inches.
all images and content © Alicia Bailey unless otherwise indicated.
Individual books can be purchased online here:
miniature version
3 x 2⅜ x ⅜
edition of 25
© 2001
Ab compares the physiological workings of the heart with Aubri Aleka Keleman’s poem “Suggestions for Improving the Heart and Its Workings.”
Color xerox from original watercolors on Mohawk superfine text in a board book binding, open spine. Covers are board covered with laser printed/handpainted title & illustration on paper made by Ray Tomasso (Interocean Curiousity Studio). 24 pages, plus endpapers of papers hand-marbled by Pamela Smith. Text block edges painted with graphite/acrylic medium.
4½ x 5½ x ⅜
opens to 5½ x 8 x 4½
box dimensions 6½ x 5½ x 1
edition of 14
© 2001
A dream or perhaps a fantasy about waking with a snake under a starlit desert sky, this book describes a titillating experience in the southwest canyon country. A slotted zig zag book with color monoprint images on Rives lightweight buff and laser transfer text. Page backs are hand painted and stenciled. The covers are snakeskin overlaid with hand-tinted sharkskin paper. The box is leather spined with hand painted cloth covers and a hand painted, recessed label on the front cover.
box dimensions 10 x 4 x 3
edition of 5
© 2003
out of print
Pages are etched, painted and fired glass, coptic binding. The pages are glue chip glass, the covers stained glass. Each page is hand-painted so there is some variation in the edition.Text and images are based on the legend of the Mandrake. The mandrake is among the most well known of magical plants. According to legend, it was moulded out of the same clay as that from which Adam was created. Madrakes have a root that resembles a human figure. Throughout history, worldwide, the mandrake has been prized for its medicinal or aphrodisiac properties, or as a talisman.The mandrake plant has opposing uses being valued both as an aphrodisiac and as an ingredient to minimize ‘uncouthness’ in both men and women. >Housed in a clamshell box accompanied by pamphlet detailing mandrake legends and lore.
compact is 2¾ x 2¾ x ½
edition of 25
© 2005
Three accordian books detail various aspects of the Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade). This plant, although toxic, has been used medicinally and as an aid to beauty.
box dimensions ⅞ x ⅞ x 1½
opens to 1 x 27 ¾
edition of 25
© 2001
boxed version out of print, book available as special order open edition
“I have no other star . . .
your wide eyes are the only light I know . . .”
Neruda’s love sonnet XVI is an exquisite proclamation of love and adoration. The 14 page accordion bound miniature is color laser printed on Mohawk Superfine text from an original watercolor painting by Alicia Bailey with handstamping and painting on the back side. Housed in a wood box with brass inlaid moon and star shapes.
case dimensions 3 x 2¾ x ¾
edition of 20
© 2002
available as part of Cosmeceutical Collection
individual copies out of print
Media myths are presented in the form of absolute truisms as is typically found in women’s magazine ads and articles. These are presented along with images of girls/women that are either also taken from the same sources but appear nonetheless to be out of context. On the bottom hinged platform is an image of a type popular in Victorian times which initially appears rather chaste but changes radically when the woman’s head is covered and the image is viewed in the provided mirror.
2½ x 2½ x 1¼
edition of 9
© 2003
The text in this book is based on the Apache Changing Woman myth. Changing Woman, or White Painted Woman is a creatrix, teacher, giver of long life and model of human and particularly female behaviour.
This book has a text block of 9 boards, each with an illustration on watercolor paper painting on one side and text on the other. The images digitally output and handcolored from original paintings by Alicia Bailey. Covers are embossed, fired, handpainted and gilded stoneware. All are bound in coptic across the spine.
book 1½ x 1½ x ¼
box dimensions 1¾ x 2 x 2
edition of 29
© 2001
“all that touches us we take in . . .”
Furnace Creek is a place of fallen ghost trees, laughing coyotes, snakes wriggling free of their skin. A place of quiet where hearts grow and warm, spirits and passions soar. Color laser printed onto Mohawk Superfine text from an original watercolor by Alicia Bailey that evokes an environment seen through eyes clouded with awe. Twenty-eight page fixed accordion in shaped cover with ribbon tie housed in pastepaper covered box with yin-yang bone and bead adornment on box lid.
5 ¼ x 5 ¾ x ½
edition of 5
© 2002
Hand printed sheets, bound in drum leaf style, with transfer text and hand-applied color, plus two pastepaper endsheets. Page edges have been painted with bright green acrylic ink. The spine is goat with a leaf pattern embossed from one of the linocuts used in the text block. The two-layer covers have an underboard leafed with variegated metal, which is exposed by the top board cutaway. Top board debossed.
A song of erotic celebration. The text is extracted from Barry Dempster’s piece Green is the Vein... published in the collection Letters from a Long Illness with the World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems
3 x 2 ⅞ x ¼
opens to 3 x 27
edition of 25
© 2001
“A sealed stillness . . .
In silence the wood declares itself. . . .”
Accordion book intaglio printed with transfer text on Rives lightweight buff. The cover is gold/silver flecked unryu with hand painted title. Poem by Frances Horowitz.
2 ¾ x 2¾ x ¼
binding variable
edition of 20
© 2003
price variable
“She calls. He turns. She opens
her legs showing him her great beauty,
and smiles, a bow of lips
seeming to tie together
the ends of the earth.”
Another of the erotic miniatures, this book pairs the poem Last Gods by Galway Kinnel with original paintings by Alicia Bailey. Printed as color laserprints on Evergreen Vellum Text, each of the 20 copies in this edition is uniquely bound.
box dimensions ¾ x 2 x 1, opens to ¾ x 17
edition of 25
©2004
“let yourself be silently drawn by the
stronger pull of what you really love”
Rumi text meanders through an 8 panel accordian. Each is color copied on Mohawk Superfine Text from one of 3 slightly different originals. Backside is pastepaper. Covers paste paper. Housed in lucite box.
2 ¾ x ¼ x ¼, box dimensions 3 ½ x 1 x ¾
edition of 35
© 2001
Carole Jackson wrote, in her book Color Me Beautiful that “the discovery of lipstick as a teenage girl changed my life.”
This slit scroll book, housed in a lipstick tube, includes dozens of observations about the history, manufacture and general qualities of lipstick.The cloth covered box housing the tube is coated on the outside with red wax. A mirror inside the box has Jackson’s words handwritten in red.
box dimensions 3½ x 1 ¾ x 1¾, scroll opens to 13 inches
edition of 10
© 2004
A rosewood box with pecan lid houses a scroll with excerpts from Jane Kenyon’s poem Notes from the Other Side. The scroll, affixed to the inner box lid, is printed both sides from an incised plastic plate and rolls around a shell, then is tied with a ribbon for replacement back into the box.
1½ x 1½ x ¼, box dimensions 1¾ x 2 x 2
edition of 29
© 2001
A pairing of Susanna Roxman’s poem October with paintings by Alicia Bailey presents both the bleakness and chill of autumn landscape and the pervasive sense that autumn prophecies a period of decline along with the awareness that this decline into dormancy heralds a period of renewed vigor and growth in the spring.
Color laser printed from original watercolors on Mohawk Superfine text, this accordion book is housed in a round box covered with pastepaper and topped with glass and wire beads.
2⅞ x 3 x 1⅞
edition of 15
© 2001
Pushing beyond typical erotic content, this box style book explores auto-erotic sensations from a female perspective.
The text, laser printed on unryu tissue, is hung from five cowry shells suspended from the top of the box. On the back wall of the box is a color inkjet image, visible only by moving the hanging text.
box dimensions 1½ x 2 x 3
edition of 25
© 2002
“Praise be given to Allah who has placed man’s greatest pleasure in the natural parts of woman and had destined the natural parts of man to afford the greatest enjoyment to woman.”
Drawing from the 16th-century Arab love manual The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nefzawi, “likely the most famous of the Arab love manuals. This book is based on … the eleven basic lovemaking postures."Color laserprint on Mohawk Superfine papers. Bound drum leaf style. Housed in a carved soapstone box.
each side 3½, opens to 3½ x 16
edition of 27
© 2002
This triangular accordion book is folded so that it twists when opened, making it easier to read both sides of the book simultaneously than to read one side at a time. Etching from a copper plate on sized Sumi paper with transfer text and unryu covered museum board covers.
box dimensions 2 ½ x 1 x 1opens to 1 ¾ x 20
book with box edition of 9
book alone edition on demand
© 2004
“without you here
I am standing
in the river
feeling for rocks
that are the curve
of your back
when it arches
and you sweat”
The scroll is intaglio printed with laser transfer text on Rives BFK lightweight. The back side has hand applied surface color. Scroll is housed in bone box.
Text is a love poem written by Heidi Zednik © 2002.
box dimensions 1 ⅜ x 3 x 2¼, book opens to 2 x 8
edition of 25
© 2001
“flying over the moon . . .
body melts and yawns . . .
flesh to flesh . . .
heart to heart . . .”
Jacob’s Ladder structure uses evocative language and erotic imagery to refer to passionate moments of intimacy. Color laser printed on Mohawk Superfine text laminated to museum board and hinged with burgundy and orange silk ribbons. Housed in a wooden box with decorative brass onlays.
box dimensions ¾ x 2 x 1, opens to ⅞ x 17
edition of 50
© 2001
“Lightning your presece from ground to sky
No one knows what becomes of me,
when you take me so quickly”
Color laser printed on Mohawk Superfine text from painting and photograph by Alicia Bailey, 8 panels bound accordion style. In clear lucite box.
3 x 3 x 3, opens to 9 x 9
open edition - materials vary
© 2001
Tanka is a Japanese poetic form that has existed for over 1300 years. Longer than haiku, tanka allows for deeper thought and expression of themes. Tankas were originally used as a way of expressing private emotions between lovers and friends. Each wall of the box is a small book with tanka poems and watercolor paintings by Alicia Bailey. The pages are color laserprint on Mohawk Superfine text.
opens to 9 x 2, box dimensions 1 ⅝ x 2 ⅝ x ⅞
edition of 25
© 2001
“. . . in the tenderness of love,
the Clouds and the Rain complete us . . .”
Based on the traditional instructional pillow books given couples on their wedding night, this two-sided accordion contains 6 sexually explicit watercolors paired with 6 physical and spiritual descriptions of the ‘embraces of love’ taken from ancient Asian texts.
1¼ x 1⅜ x ¼, box dimensions 1⅜ x 1⅞ x 1⅞
edition of 26
© 2001
“The phoenix is rising . . .
flesh risen, warm blood,
our bodies and the bird suspended.”
Adria Klinger’s poem Transformation accompanies sensual watercolor paintings by Alicia Bailey. The words and imagery are both evocative and explicit. Color copied from original paintings by Alicia Bailey on Mohawk Superfine text. Housed in a hand carved and painted bone box with brass hardware.
box dimensions ¾ x 2 x 1
opens to ⅞ x 17
edition of 20
© 2004
Rumi text meanders through an 8 panel accordian. Each is color copied on Mohawk Superfine Text from one of 3 slightly different originals. Backside is pastepaper. Covers paste paper over museum board.