Documentation of diagnosis, hospitalization and death of the artist's girlfriend from leukemia. The story is told through personal notes, the reports of nurses, doctors, various medical forms, lists of questions for the doctors and photographs. Rather than seeming clinical, these very real artifacts of the final struggle of this young woman are heartwrenching.
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
200 pages. Reproductions of phtographs, as well as handwritten and typed documents relating to 52 actions of the Guerilla Art Action Group between 1969 and 1976.
A visual account of the artist, Michael Peven's, open heart surgery. Distributed by Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, Birmingham, Ala. "Handmade, paperback with stiff board, ink jet prints on enhanced matte paper with waxed linen thread, craft wire, staples, and PVA. Pages open in a variety of ways. Some are held together with steri strips and staples. Bound on left and right sides, pages open in the middle by a series of increasingly more difficult manipulations"--Distributor's website. Limited ed. of 49 copies.
Concrete poem in four parts using the commercial names of house paint colors. Left hand pages (verso) are the paint colors, with the paint's name on the left side (recto) page., Also issued in a special edition of 45 + 5 a.p. in box with print.
