Volume 3, P018; Each print is a reproduction of a painting or drawing by Ryden, originally exhibited in 2001-2002; Prints are 8 x 10 high quality lithographic printing on cardstock with an embossed border issued in a Japanese silk covered box (28 cm.); Prints are interleaved with guardsheets
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
The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) awarded this book a prize for design and content; Collection of poems accompanied by black and white images
Designed and printed by Julie Chen using an assortment of letterpress techniques. Papers include Wyndstone Mica and Tuxedo bronze, found aeronautical charts, and embossed paper designed by Margaret Ahrens Sahlstrand at Icosa Studio. Produced in an edition of 75 copies --Box lining paper;In fabric covered box (28 x 10 x 6 cm.) with hinged glass lid;Signed by the artist
Title from p. [4] of cover; We did! it! March 28th, 1989, memorial-celebration for Michael Paul Marino--'The Bastards' Angelina, David, Thorsen, Doug Tincher, myself et al. W.C. Spring rite. On my mother's kitchen table--Oregon City, Or.--holcomb rd. --Colophon
![A blue book / [Ian L. Turner]](/thumbnails/t/9/oregondigital-df70bx09t.jpg "A blue book / [Ian L. Turner]")
![Radio silence / [poem and artist's book by] Julie Chen](/thumbnails/7/7/oregondigital-df70bw977.jpg "Radio silence / [poem and artist's book by] Julie Chen")
