10 Leaves. "Loose fish shaped pages, painted on one side, including a flounder with a human head, a mermaid wedding, me underwater surrounded by fish and more tall tales. Housed in a creel shaped silk and faux leather lipped clamshell box, decorated with a fishing lure" --Artist's statement from publisher's 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
