Alexander Booth – Triptych, 2021
Format: 13 × 20 cm
Pagecount: 76
Edition: 150
Design: Book Book
Print: Office Offset
A copy of the limited edition of 150 can be purchased at: wordkunst
This book is tripartite: the first section – Roman Hours – is a collection of minimalist mourning songs, and is located almost exclusively in Italy; applying the Delaunays’ definition of Cubism as simultaneous contrast the central section – The Little Light That Escaped – explores metaphorical and literal dislocation against the backdrop of the Mediterranean, twinned with Berlin, no Shelleyan “paradise of exiles” but something darker; and the third section – Insulae – is a series of rooms remembered, from cities that have played an important role in my adult life, primarily Rome and Berlin, but also from further afield now: Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, DC: a memory of architecture an architecture of memory.
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Thanks to Fedrigoni for the amazing paper. Freelife Vellum 120 gsm fo the content and Freelife Merida Kraft 280 gsm for the cover.
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Setting up the machine does have its pitfalls. The register changes at the slightest adjustment.
Klack, klack, klack! the sweet sound of the Office Offset machine when everything runs smoothly.
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19 fronts and 19 backs straight and perfecting printing.
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Fine Art Print thought differently. 150 copies on one big sheet.
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Each title label is an original Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photorag.
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