2024
The forest lost its sap
The forest lost its sap is a collaborative book with Michelle Wilson as part of The Rhinoceros Project. It arose from a visit to the Sirente Crater during an artist residency in Abruzzo, Italy in the summer of 2021. The text is excerpted from an Abruzzese folk tale of a new star falling to earth which created the Sirente Crater, as well as the Roman Emperor Constantine's account of his vision before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. According to speculation, the Sirente meteor impact was the astrological event that Constantine witnessed as a sign from above, signaling the decline of paganism and the rise of Christianity.
Suminagashi, pochoir, and pressure printing form the imagery, along side handset metal type in Piranesi and Empire typefaces. The interior pages are made of fibers from "Broussonetia papyrifera, the cover from Cortaderia jubata, and its enclosure from Gossypium heraceum. All papers were handmade by the artists.
Production took place at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, as well as at our respective studios.
Softcover in a handmade crater paper enclosure, 4 x 6.25”, 16 pages, Edition of 40.
Suminagashi, pochoir, and pressure printing form the imagery, along side handset metal type in Piranesi and Empire typefaces. The interior pages are made of fibers from "Broussonetia papyrifera, the cover from Cortaderia jubata, and its enclosure from Gossypium heraceum. All papers were handmade by the artists.
Production took place at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, as well as at our respective studios.
Softcover in a handmade crater paper enclosure, 4 x 6.25”, 16 pages, Edition of 40.