"The plates are photopolymer from the pen and ink drawings I did of the soil monoliths in the Maynard Fosberg Soil Monolith Collection at the University of Idaho ...The pages are sewn together in couplets, using what I call the baseball stitch, then I link the couplets together at the spine. I wanted the stitching to look like sutures. This series is an exploration of the philosophy of phenomenology and how things reveal themselves to us as we are working"--Artist's statement from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, website "Laid in letter-fold wrapper with paper hand-sewn at edges. Closure paper tab hand sewn to wrapper. Relief printed on Magnani Incisioni paper"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, website
Each page of this book is made of heavy card stock, gold on one side, and letterpress printed on the other. Some pages have additional irregularly shaped circular or oval cut outs stitched to the surfaces. All thirty-six 4 x 6 inch pages are stitched together in three rows of 13 to create a large rectangle when the book is fully unfolded. When closed the rows are folded lengthwise first then folded accordion style page by page to create a 4 x 6 inch 36-page deep book which is housed in a clamshell case. Ordinary black sewing thread is used in a back stitch to create an organic pattern over all of the pages when the book is opened, and these lines of embroidery create the connective stitches between pages. At one end of the book two pieces of thread extend beyond the pages' ends and both threads have loops at their ends so that the book can be hung, one-sided from T-pins on the wall, or two-sidded from cup hooks on the celing. Issued in a lipped clam shell box with a letterpress printed and stitched image on the cover. There is no text in this book, no title, colophon or signiture. In the title, Hannah Arendt refers to the German-American philosopher Johanna , Title, author statement, and imprint information from White Lotus Gallery website
Consists primarily of b&w linocuts of places with hand-carved linocut text identifying location on opposite pages; some linocuts interleaved with guardsheets; col. ill. on lining papers. Bound in brown cloth with black letterpress landscape image on the front board, spine and some of the back. Similar design used to create a blind embossed area on the back cover. End sheets have a river map and title 'Many waters'. Seven blank pages provided for notes. The colophon page is a linocut of a cemetary with headstones.
15 Leaves. Single leaves sewn to a red ribbon, prayer flag-style. Text cut from linoleum block printed on Magnani Incisioni paper. Accordion-folded pages attached to fabric-covered boards. Linoleum block print of title inset into front board.
