Syntax Machine
2001
edition 35
8 x 6 inches
20 pages
letterpress printed from handset type & commercial cuts of electrical parts; modified star binding; Aqualina Marbles & Crane’s papers, brushed aluminum cover
$975, 3 copies remain for sale to subscribers only

A lyrical meditation on the precise and nearly mechanical composition of both the synthetic and natural worlds, from the make-up of cities to that of novels, from skeletal structures to that of dna: Letters into words, words into compound words, words into sentences, sentences after sentences, sentences into something larger than they are: the manufacturing of ideas, stories, meaning, matter, matter that matters... Matter and meaning is composed of nothing but things, and the syntax of things.

Included in the following exhibitions: 2006 "Euclid to e-books: ideal books moving ideas" Hofstra Museum; "Treasures of the John Wilson Room" Multnomah County Public Library; "Construct" Florida Atlantic University; 2003 "bibliocosmos" Reed College; "(re)Readings: Artist Books Now" Gallery Lux; 2002 "Rare Books of the Future" Center for Book Arts NYC; 2001 "Blind Collaboration" PABA Gallery