Title : Hairy
This book is a pleasure to hand to some poor unsuspecting type, the look of horror and revulsion mixed with a little surprise, and of course the desire to be polite is a true voyeurs dream. The conflict of it being a book, something we think of as clean, intellectual and wholesome, jar with the look and feel of this small and quite wrong book. Its hairiness is wrong; it provokes an almost physical disgust. I have seen people withdraw when offered it, drop it immediately they touch it, even refuse to go near it. And the range of facial expressions has provided me with much amusement, enough to think that the hours I spent stitching on the hairs and my poor sore fingers were well worth it.
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Title: Burning Books #1
This book was one of a pair that I burnt through, each page has a small burn in it, and the burns are then interpreted into a charcoal drawing. It contains 49 Charcoal drawings.
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Title: Men like shadows
This is a very shabby old book that I found in a second hand book shop, it is by Dorothy Charques and dated 1952. It has a quote written on the fly cover which I found very inspiring.
“Men are like shadows
that move with the great sun,
Show fair, and then do falter,
Come, and are gone.”
I bought the book and then turned it into a light box. Not quite sure, but I fear this makes me a philistine.
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Title: Dotty
50 drawings of crowds in black ink
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Title: Handle with Care
Covered with black rubber and pierced with a lot of very sharp 1 inch tacks it contains47 monoprints black on white paper A4 in size, Literally handle with care.
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Title: Sketchbook
Filled with collages, digital prints, paintings, drawings, assemblages and thoughts.Not strictly speaking an artists’ book, but more filled with interesting stuff than any of the others.
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Title: Velvet
Handmade paper, black velvet (with bleached stripe pattern) and tied black rubber, 16 monoprints.
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Title: Sweet Darkness
Each page contains a monoprint (mostly 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm) . The book is handmade, the pages are black and hand stitched. The cover of the book is black velvet that has been splattered in bleach and some paint, the inside cover is in black rubber and it has a fly cover of natural rough hessian.
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Title: Charcoal Drawings Book
charcoal drawings of faces, one on each facing page so about 100.
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Title: Canvas Monoprints Book
12 black on white monoprints on the themes of human rights violations and eugenics.
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Title: F--k You
Book contains a hidden void containing a primed mousetrap, rendered safe of course. It’s the surprise I was after not actually to maim someone.
This one I guess can give the hint via the title that there is something malevolent inside, in contradiction to saying about judging books by the covers.
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Title: Canvas Box
green paper book has charcoal and paint drawings and digital prints. Polaroid photos are pinhole exposed and very vague ambiguous foggy images. Small black pages digital prints of ink and bleach drawings in a selection box style.
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