This is an accordion-style book based on a Jacques Prévert poem, "To Paint the Portrait of a Bird". It is made in the shape of a bird displaying its feathers and stored as a narrow rectangle. Letterpress using pied type, and feather prints. Unfolded it measures 12 x 20 x 1.5 inches (30.5 x 51 x 4 cm); folded up 12 x 1.5. x 1 inches, (30.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm). Edition of 18, signed and numbered.
My artist books, broadsides, and loose-leaf editions are published in very small numbers, as low as five. All are hand-printed and hand-bound (in case of books) by me, all are signed and numbered. While I am trying to be perfect, I am human, not a machine. Some variations in the editioned work are to be expected due to the processes, materials, and the artist’s change of mind. It is exactly what makes the work collectible: each piece is an original work of art. The pieces employ printmaking like original etchings, woodcuts, carborundum, screen prints, monotype, monoprint, and letterpress. Nothing is produced using digital reproduction methods.
$850