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End of April
Ed.
25, 8-page; Miniature
Book 2 1/2" x 2", 2007
Letterpress printed on handmade Cave papers; Inside handblown
glass egg with robin's egg blue glass and gold leaf; Set inside
a custom box of holly & cherry woods; Special Deluxe Edition
for release early Summer 2007
Under a cherry tree
I found a robin’s egg,
broken, but not shattered.I had been thinking of you,
and was kneeling in the grass
among fallen blossomswhen I saw it . . .
Noted poet Phillis Levin’s delicate lament is brought
to life by artist Mindy Belloff. The viewer is lured by a
custom 4 1/4" cube crafted of fine holly & cherry
woods. Upon opening the box, a precious book is found nested
inside an elegantly hand blown glass egg which rests comfortably
in one’s hand. The miniature book with poem is letterpress
printed on handmade papers and opens to reveal the beauty
and heartache of lost love.
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W2LZX
Ed. 30;
7 1/4 " x 5" - In Progress, for Summer 2007
Fine Letterpress Edition: Images digitally printed; Text letterpress
printed; Metal covers; Coptic binding
A memorial tribute, the call letters W-2-L-Z-X belonged to
the artist's Uncle, a ham radio operator for over 60 years.
He was a radio operator aboard a B-17 bomber in WWII and a
pioneer in early communications. "W2LZX" is composed
of nostalgic photographs and collaged QSL cards logged by
ham radio operators, with personal and historic text. From
Morse Code transmissions to computer electronics, hams have
made significant contributions to international and mass communications.
The stories of W2LZX and others like him resonate culturally,
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The Cliffs of Mistake
Ed.
50, 6 1/2" x 5"; 2006
Images from
original watercolor paintings; Letterpress printed from photopolymer
plates; Text set in Bembo Italic on Johannot papers with Bugra
wrappers & handmade St. Armand cover pages; Poet, Molly
Peacock, c. 2005.
Price $165: Order: intimapress@yahoo.com
"To know you're making a mistake as
you make it, yet not be able to stop . . ."
Molly Peacock, Poet and creative nonfiction writer, author
of five books of poetry; recent Poet-in-Residence of the American
Poets Corner; former President of the Poetry Society of America;
web:www.mollypeacock.org |
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The Mountain of NO
Ed.
40, 18" x 14"; 2006
Letterpress
printed4-color
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"Climbing the Mountain of NO
who knows why I cling each time
suspended on the precipice of NO
seeking to penetrate NO, lamenting No,
scrambling on the bungee below
Time is stilled on the summit of NO
surveying again, my head hunched low
no pulleys to cushion the absence, the dare
Ironic in second sight,
remembering that ominous flight . . . ."
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A Satyr Against Marriage
Ed.
100, 10" x 8"; 2006
Letterpress
printed from original digital design, 2-color; Text from an
anonymous author, book entitled "A Satyr Against Marriage,"
printed in London in 1700, from the collection of the New
York Public Library.
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"O friend, continue in your rural air, Nor tempt our
sultry town,
nor
sullen fair, . Live happy in a quiet single life,
Hunt foxes, wolves, but shun the Marriage Strifes.
. . . Conjur'd to one, a double helpless thing,
By the strange Circle of a Wedding Ring."
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The Lovers Discourse Can Only Be Horizontal after Roland
Barthes
Deborah
Landau, Poet
Ed. 80, 8" x 10"; 2006
Letterpress
printed, 2-color
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"I was ruminating in a January of park
mild and bare branched
gray entourage of buildings
and the skyline how I like it
pressing up against my neck
your tongue in my mouth was the main thing
as we reclined on the hillside
and the taxi cabs drifted down . . .
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Chapter XXOO
Ed.
20, 15-page Accordion Fold
10" x 5" each page; c. 2004
Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates; Asahi white
covers
A tongue-in-cheek poem commenting on the artist's experience
of dating and gender relations.
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Broken Ground
Ed.
30, 9-page Accordion Fold; 12 1/2" x 9 1/2" each
page; 1992/2003;
Images from original watercolor, gouache, ink, and pigment
paintings; Digitally printed with archival pigmented inks
on acid-free Somerset Velvet papers; covers on Asahi white
book cloth; Inside a unique white fabric and red silk covering.
Broken
Ground is an eruption of spontaneous writing interwoven
throughout bold painting. Nine diary entries meditate on lost
loves, youthful desire, and a struggle for self-knowledge.
The shifting moods of the Aftist's prose, embedded in paintings
composed of ink blots, splotches of color, and a maze of personal
iconography, draws the viewer into a world at once unique
and universal, in this evocative quest for emotional growth
and insight. |
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Journey
Unique
Glass Sculptural Book; 2003 6-pages,
each panel 6" x 4"
Etched glass; Sterling
silver binding |
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Ten
Reflections on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies
Ed. 40, 10" x 7", c. 1997/2002
Images from original gouache, ink, and pigment paintings
Digitally printed with archival pigmented inks on textured
rag paper with handpainting; Leather spine; Indian paper covers
with handpainting; Flat adhesive binding by Judith Ivry; Text
translation by David Oswald
The vivid language of Rilke's Duino Elegies is uniquely
revealed in the bold, elegant paintings of book artist Mindy
Belloff. After reading the Elegies for many years,
the artist meditated on one a month. Ten Reflections emerged
from a visualization of the poet's words, which are interwoven
throughout. Rilke's expressions of despair, love, fear, and
solitude begins, "Who, if I cried out would hear me then..."
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Wish
Unique Glass Book; 6"
x 4"; c. 2003
Etched glass covers; Paper
pages with sewn coptic binding
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Caught
inside a dream unfolding
Edition 18, 18-page; 7 1/2"x 11 1/2"; c. 1999
Text: Photopolymer plates typeset in Univers
Images: Letterpress printed engraving plates & linoleum
cut blocks with hand painting. Paper: Stonehenge & Thai.
Bound in gold book cloth inside a deep ochre slip cover.
Poem, images and binding by the artist
Through poetry and images, Caught weaves the story of the artist,
her Mother, and the mythical Gorgon, representing the cancer
that took her Mother's life. The edition communicates a powerful
struggle both psychological and physical, involving intense
feelings and intimate memories, past pain, present healing,
and future hope. . . .
wishes, dreams, transformations . . .
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The
Distant Light of Paris
Edition 12, 7 3/4" x 6", c. 2000
Accordion Book: Eight photo transfers from original gouache
and watercolor paintings; Beautifully
printed on Rives BFK; Title
page letterpress printed; Inside blue clam shell box
The Distant Light of Paris was created from original
watercolors, while the artist was in Paris. The images emerged
as internal landscapes and reflected the light of the City.
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The
Blue Ridge: Seven Meditations Edition
5, 19" x 14"; c. 1998/9
Seven monoprints on handmade paper housed in cobalt blue clam
shell portfolio; Title page letterpress printed
The
Blue Ridge - Seven Meditations is a book of monoprints
created in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. They reflect
the country and record seven days of emotional states, as
I shed the stresses of the City and merged with the ebbs and
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Another
Day Edition
15, 3 3/4" x 3 3/4", c. 1999
Images: Linocut and letterpress printed
Text: by Joel Gold; set on photopolymer plates
Another Day is a letterpress printed edition of text with linocut.
Incorporating the words of poet Joel Gold, this small book
speaks to the details and hardships of daily life, as we wake
up, fight our fears, and have an opportunity to begin again,
"as time binds [us] to another day . . ."
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I
am my own worst anxiety
Edition 10, 7" x 10"; c. 1998
Photographs with text digitally printed on translucent Thai
paper; Unique sewn binding; Salago orange covers; Inside clam
shell box with red silk cloth and Moriki red trays
I am my own worst anxiety is a book of
photographic self-portraits with text digitally printed. The
translucent paper creates a kind of afterimage when the page
is turned. This private monologue whispers: I exhaust myself
~ Trying to dodge my shadows ~ Constantly shedding my skin
~ Too concerned about the future ~ Trying to focus on now
~ To be . . .
I am my own worst anxiety inspired a longer text which
was recorded in a layered audio on a 6-minute loop. See mixed
media Installations: "And we always thought we were
the normal ones..." (1999).
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Transmutation
Edition 15, 3-3/4" x 2-5/8"; c. 1998
Handset type and Images letterpress printed
Images: Linocut with pochoir and hand painting
Text: Vol. 1 from Kafka's Metamorphosis
Vol. 2 the artist's response from a dream; Inside gray
slipcase
Transmutation
contains the first line of Kafka's Metamorphosis in
Volume 1: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy
dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic
insect" and the artist's answer to the text by way of
a dream, in Volume 2. The book speaks of the power of dream
imagery to inform and transform.
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The
Excision Edition 10; 7" x 9 1/2";
c. 1997 [5 black/5 beige]
Images: drawing on photographs mounted on Columbe handmade paper;
Text: Laser printed on vellum; Stab binding; Title stitched
into black covers
The Excision is a diaristic photo narrative. The self-portraits
were taken after a surgical procedure on the artist's breast,
and are combined with text from journal entries. The artist
drew on the photographs as a way to come to terms with medical
terminology, the new incision in her body, and the anxiety
of the unknown. |
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