• Open After Consumption / Sally Schneider
Open After Consumption / Sally Schneider Open After Consumption / Sally Schneider

Open After Consumption / Sally Schneider

Broadsides

FA.B16.0455
Fine Art Collection
25 x 13 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches)
1990
A.S.C. Rower
Sally Schneider
Flockophobic Press
Steven J. Bernstein
Number 4 in an edition of 100. CBA copy is incomplete (saffron pasta broadside with printed prose poem by Steven J. Bernstein is not included); designed by A.S.C. Rower from a concept by Sally Schneider entitled, 'The Onion as it is cooked'. CBA copy is comprised of two separate parts- a sealed envelope with the instruction, 'open after consumption' printed on its flap. The envelope contains a printed copy of a poem by Steven J. Bernstein. The subject of the poem is prospective interview, written in cryptic free verse, and interspersed with lines of a dialogue configured as an aside along the right-hand margin. The poem contains culinary references throughout and concludes with a question in French, which appears to be nonsensical-'Faire savourer vu les oignon comme cuisiner?' The second part of this work is a letterpress printed and illustrated colophon broadside, "The Onion As It Is Cooked"; colophon is signed by A.S.C. Bower, Steven J. Bernstein and Sally Schneider.