• VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García
VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García

VOICES: Street Spirit, New York / Oswaldo García

Accordion books


FA.B122.2456
8.5 x 136.5 in.
2021
Oswaldo García
New York City

"VOICES: Street Spirit, New York is a limited-edition accordion book that was conceived, designed, and printed by Center for Book Arts 2021 Book Artist-in-Residence Oswaldo García during his time working on-site at CBA in September and October 2021.

While in New York, García photographed hundreds of street signs and then used language from his images to compose a poem-like list of text that is both poignant and humorous.

A single line of text from one New York sign appears on each fold of the accordion book. The paper García selected for the book transitions from bright green to blue to orange to red to yellow."--Center for Book Arts website

Colophon:
"VOICES is the result of many days of exploring the streets of New York, photographing and hand-setting words, phrases, and experiences encountered there. It was produced during September and October, as part of the Book Artist-in-Residence program 2021 at Center for Book Arts, NYC. It was printed on colorplan paper in an edition of 200.

Printed using a Vandercook Universal III and 45 metal type specimens from the Center for Book Arts collection: alternate gothic brush bulmer caslon antique caslon antique italic caslon italic century schoolbooks bold cheltenham bold chisel cooper black corvinus bold devinne dom casual egyptian bold erasmus initials ferdinand futura futura bold futura line garamond bold italic goudy old style graby condensed kaufman script lidyan bold & condensed melior monastic news gothic extra condensed nicolas cochin & italic old english optima bold orplid roy craft sans serif condense shadow spartan black condensed & italic stradivarius stymie black & medium trylon & twentieth century extra bold condensed."

Edition of 200. CBA has two copies: 7/200 and 10/200. Both are numbered and signed by the artist in pencil on the wrapper.