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Of the Many Varieties of Beginning the Fatal Engagement, There Was Something in a Tree, a Rag or Head Scarf / Emily Wilson ; Sara Langworthy
Broadsides
FA.FFS33.3325
28 x 36 cm; 11" x 14" (meant to be folded to 28 x 18 cm (11" x 7"))
circa 2007
A letterpress printed sheet, meant to be folded in half so as to be 3 pages.
The text is printed in two shades of gray.
The sheet is illustrated with a print of a tree, made from linoleum blocks and polymer plates, and further illustrated with semi ink depicting the trunk and branches.
The author statement and printer statement reads: "A text fragment by Emily Wilson. Printed by Sara Langworthy on a Vandercook SP-20, serial number 26967, in Iowa City, Iowa.
The colophon reads: "First step: ask her out & treat her like a lady. All the other steps: the tree was constructed using linoleum blocks & photopolymer plates from earlier projects. After printing these with white ink, I brushed each sheet with sumi ink. These steps are altered and repeated until the image feels finished. It is good to have many blotters on hand. The type is hand-set Van Dijck, both Roman & Italic. I dampened the paper before printing the type. The paper is Sakamoto."
CBA has one copies, this is copy 1, initialed and numbered by the artist: "S.L. 68/100." The copy mounted on a sheet of black paper, 35.5 x 43 cm (14" x 17")
