buy From the Colophon: "This book was printed in the Book Arts Studio in the J. Willard Marriott Library. Text was digitally set using American Typewriter and Pirenese Italic. Images were hand carved on linoleum, or exposed on photopolymer plates. Printed on Rives Lightweight, Heavyweight, and BFK papers." Each book is signed and editioned by the author. Edition of 35 was letterpress printed using Vandercook Flatbed presses in the University of Utah Book Arts Studio. The book consists of four signatures of eight pages printed on the Rives Lightweight paper, two in the front, and two in the back, both sewn with a French Web binding. They are joined by an accordion fold out which creates a spread equivalent to 4 pages. The front and back signatures both include an extra page of Rives Heavyweight paper, attached with glue at the spine before sewing, to create covers. The text block is then enclosed in another cover, printed on the Rives BFK paper.
L'ombre is an exploration of the idea of ghosts in their different forms. The title comes from french, as explained on the first page of the book, and can be translated as ghost, but is used primarily to mean shadow. The ideas of ghosts are presented in the form of a story, following the inner thoughts and journal entries of a young woman as she moves from Utah, to France, and eventually London. Using both English and French, and coming from a larger story, the book is intentionally designed so that not all of it is accessible, indicating an inability to communicate between the dead and the living. Two different type faces are used to differentiate between the journal entries and the inner thoughts, the script of the Pirenese Italic font representing the handwritten thoughts of the character, while the typewriter represents a transcription of some of her thoughts.
Product code: L'ombre: Artist buy Book