THREE SMALL EDITION ARTISTS BOOKS
By Evil Twin Publications' Stacy Wakefield
all made in the printing studios at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 1994

ONTBINDING

4.5 x 7.75", 12 pages, letterpress printed on sandpaper, vegetable packing material, kraft and marble paper. Bound with ribbon. Poem by W.A.J. Vonder. Design and printing by Stacy Wakefield. Edition of 10 copies.

Vonder's poem was written specifically for this book and printed in the original Dutch.The Dutch word "Ontbinding" can mean disintegration, as of a corpse, or can be translated quite literally as un-binding, the falling apart of a whole into separate parts. The poem's subject is the break up of a relationship, and both meanings are played with in the text.

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OUR SPEED AMAZES ME

5.75 x 9", 5 pages. silkscreened images on bamboo curtain and fabric. Cover embossed on laminated found billboard. Text photocopied on bags from Albert Heijn grocery store. Story and book printing by Stacy Wakefield. Edition of 10 copies.

The story is told from the point of view of one of the children living in David Koresh's compound in Waco, Texas when they escaped from the FBI attack in 1994.

 

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TRANSIENT SONG

6.5 x 6.5", 20 pages, letterpress printed on found newspaper and comic books. Poem by Amber Gayle. Design and printing by Stacy Wakefield. Edition of 10 copies.

Amber Gayle's poem celebrating the nomadic hobo-life is printed on foreign newspapers, like pieces picked up on travels, passing over local news and events in a fast and furious pace getting to the next place.

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