Colophon: Lynn Sures designed the book; drew and carved the woodblocks from basswood (Japanese shine) panels; made the paper, pulp paintings & watermarks at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, of Silver Spring, Maryland; and bound the edition with assitance from Maria Burke 7 Jill Christian. Terrence Chouinard of the Wing & Wheel Press, Locke, New York, printed the book. Variations began in 2000 and was completed in 2005 in an edition of 55 with 5 artists' proofs.

Inspired by the musician Charlie Mingus

[Wheaton, Maryland] 2000-2005. Two-sided accordion fold book. The woodcuts on the reverse are with color. 10.5”x7.5”x.5"; opens to 58.5". Lynn Sures designed the book; drew and carved the woodblocks from basswood (Japanese shina) panels; made the paper, pulp paintings & watermarks at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, of Silver Spring, Maryland; and bound the edition with assistance from Maria Burke & Jill Christian. Lynn also worked on the text design with Terrence Chouinard and designed the wrapper with assistance from Shawn Sheehy. Harold Kyle produced the photopolymer plates at his Boxcar Press of Syracuse, New York. Printing by Terrence Chouinard. All text and images are letterpress printed, all paper is handmade. Accordion fold with 16 pages of abaca, pulp-painted paper. Eight consecutive pages are printed with woodcuts and polymer-plate text, eight are printed with woodcuts alone. Three pamphlets of abaca and hemp papers are sewn into the accordion; each contains two polymer-plate images and one essay, plus a watermark image. The title and colophon are printed on the front and back of the wrapper, which is a single folded sheet of abaca paper with a woodcut and polymer-plate text. Signed by Sures on both the back of the wrapper and the side of the front cover.

Inspiring this book is the musical work entitled "Pithecanthropus erectus" written and performed by twentieth-century musician Charles Mingus. Mingus speaks in the album liner notes about the stages of evolutionary development and the self-awareness of humans. Book artist Lynn Sures and paleoanthropologist Rick Potts use images and words to weave Mingus’ musical tale together with the poignant factual story of early hominid P. erectus. The dialectic between Mingus and P. erectus addresses fragility, the power of creation, the hand played by chance, and the blank slate of the future.