14 p. "Deluxe edition is cased in a variation of the Japanese portfolio structure, with bone clasps"--Publisher's website. Haikus by Sara Pirkle Hughes, with artwork by her twin sister Amy Pirkle, telling the story of their grandmother, who left her home in Japan as a young mother to begin a new life in the 1950's American South. Design, printing, artwork, and handmade paper by Amy Pirkle
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.
Label on back cover reads: Martin, P.O. Box 06574, Chicago, Illinois, 60606; Bound with string and a bell; Contains black and white images and text as well as some colored text; Covers are made of black plasticized paper, Signed by the artist
Includes table of contents: Subliminal messages, Secret societies, This cute piece of miniature art, Come a little closer, Masterpieces in colour; Images in book are of scanned cards which were discarded from a Los Angeles library; First image of card is very close up and second image is of the full card
This is a part of Ellis' series [IL]LOGICS which she describes as mini 'sound bites' exploring all too human conditions. . . A selection of 100 passages and quotes, reminders of the 100 days of genocide that began with the killing of two presidents on April 6, 1994, and led to the killing of 800,000+ Rwandans [p.3] A miniature book, bound in red leather with an embossed skull on the cover and images of human skeletons on the end papers., Signed by the artist
