Jack Ginsberg Centre for the Book Arts

Search: South African Artists Books

Full Details

Karoo Gothic

Item date(s): 2022

Derek Smith - (bookartist)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 180mm
Binding: Hand sewn and bound
Language: English
Edition: #10/22

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Housed in a black box with a white sliding lid.

This is a personal journal compiled after many road-trips through the Karoo. It is a collection of images and words that is a private meditation. It also contains QR codes to favourite road trip songs - scan and listen. Each journal is hand-made from scratch and is perfectly imperfect.

The text is both typewritten and cursive. The colophon and name of the author is written on small cards. Two illustrated cards and a feather are included in the box.

Ref: GB/31023