Seeing Trilogy
2000
edition 25
boxed set includes three books plus gallery guide
box measures 6 x 5.5 x 6 inches
$800, 3 copies remain for sale to subscribers only

The Seeing Trilogy, a boxed set of three letterpress artist books, investigates how human experience is fundamentally shaped by the way we see. Includes:

Look See Language
5 x 5 inches
12 pages
letterpress printed from handset type; pamphlet stitch binding; Mylar and Arches papers
Explores the discrepancies between language and the visual world. The book is printed entirely in the blind (heavy impression but no ink): These are only words about seeing, and words about words. There are no sights referred to. There is nothing to see.

Forgetting the Visual Field
5 x 5 inches
28 pages
letterpress printed from handset type, linocut, & xerox transfer; accordion bound; Fabriano, tracing, & velour papers
This book shows how our daily experience of seeing-the way we see itself -is actually a radical creative act: Realism is a perpetuation of a biological lie. And we believe this lie so completely that it makes our visual existence sensical, meaningful, beautiful, and we go on, never seeing things as they are.

The Eye is a Camera
5 x 5 inches
14 pages
letterpress printed from handset type & photopolymer plates; tunnel book structure; Somerset, Stonehenge, & French Lizard papers, Iris book cloth, book board, washer
Modeled after a Leica deluxe field box camera, this book imagines how our visual memory would be profoundly different if our eyes functioned as cameras: Imagine if your retinas were film, to be burned only once: the same bright glare of the hospital, forever, wherever you looked.

Included in the following exhibtions: 2004 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn" Brooklyn Museum; 2002 "Rare Books of the Future" Center for Book Arts NYC; 2001 Bookmobile Project/ Projet Mobilivre tour; 2000 "Seeing (75 books)" Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University