Stasis

$250.00

Unique work - only 1 available

Stasis
© 2023
Edition of 1
Dimensions in inches (closed): 5 x 3.4 x .7

Materials
Book: paper, ink, thread, hot foil, leather (goat) wrapper: museum board, book cloth, marbled paper, hot foil, ribbon

Ever since I worked with Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions, I've been intrigued by the idea of posing a series of questions as a poetic form. This small book presents a question, followed by a statement, followed by another question, then a one word summary statement. The text is digitally printed in color laminated to a monochromatic monoprint on translucent HM Japanese paper. The non text pages are a series of relief prints with extensive hot foil surface manipulations. The pages are bound with an unsupported sewing, then laminated to one another to create a book of stiff leaf pages.

Housed in a three part, wrap around case with a recessed label of hot stamp foil on paper and ribbon closure.

Full text:

Why this ill-formed sweetness at the heart of things?
Too soft to roll under its own momentum.
Unable to move either towards death or to carry on?
Stasis

Materials
Book: paper, ink, thread, hot foil, leather (goat) wrapper: museum board, book cloth, marbled paper, hot foil, ribbon

Ever since I worked with Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions, I've been intrigued by the idea of posing a series of questions as a poetic form. This small book presents a question, followed by a statement, followed by another question, then a one word summary statement. The text is digitally printed in color laminated to a monochromatic monoprint on translucent HM Japanese paper. The non text pages are a series of relief prints with extensive hot foil surface manipulations. The pages are bound with an unsupported sewing, then laminated to one another to create a book of stiff leaf pages.

Housed in a three part, wrap around case with a recessed label of hot stamp foil on paper and ribbon closure.

Full text:

Why this ill-formed sweetness at the heart of things?
Too soft to roll under its own momentum.
Unable to move either towards death or to carry on?
Stasis