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Scighte

Item date(s): 1987

Joe Napora  - (text by)
Timothy C. Ely  (1949-) - (book artist)
Ruth Lingen  - (pulp painting by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 230mm
Edition: #55/85


Place publication: New York
Publisher: The Poote Press

Additional notes:
Ely's collaboration with Ruth Lingen at the Poote Press (Brooklyn, New York) on Joe Napora's SCIGHTE (1987) is a beautifully integrated work fusing Napora's text, Tim's magnesium linecut illustrations, and Lingen's pulp paintings, with the binding designed and executed by Ely. Of the work Napora states: "Such is the possible connection, such is the necessary mystery-earth, the glyphs made of mother dirt to connect us with the sky, with our own imagination, with the 3 of us. So 'Scighte' becomes our sight / see / cite".

The paper is hand made by Ruth Lingen. The Illustrator, Timothy Ely, designed the coptic binding.

See Joshua Heller - A Spring 2009 List - Item 4.

Exhibition notes:
Gaia: Dialogue between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by David Paton & Ciara Struwig. 16 September – 12 December 2025



Ref: GB/4676


   


   


   



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