Body of Inquiry A Triptych Opening to a Corporeal Codex
Item date(s): 2011
Casey Gardner
Pages: unpaged Size: 387mm Inscription: Signed by the artist Edition: #47/57
Place publication: Berkeley, CA Publisher: Set in Motion Press and Still Wild Books Cat. 045 - C9-9 Exhibition 2017
Additional notes: A folded tryptich bound in quarter brown leather.
Letterpress printed on a Vandercook 4 in my backyard with a garden just beginning. The typefaces are Jenson and Whitney. The materials are Lettra, Filio, Faux leather, and Zanders Elefantenhaut.
The project galvanized in the 3rd arronsiddement of Paris at the Musee des Arts et Metiers where outlandish & ingenious works of science and industry are displayed. In the deep and meandering stacks of UC Berkeley's Doe Library, I found late 19th-century laboratory catalogs from Geneva, Berlin, London and San Francisco; the scientific instruments are culled from these treasures. The rest of the images I drew.
Exhibition note: AB/2482 p21.
Exhibition notes: Item 045 - C9-9 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.