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American Corn

Item date(s): 2009

Kurt Allerslev  - (bookbinding by)
Marshall Weber  - (text by)
Christopher K. Wilde
Laura Smith
Jeffrey Morin  - (papermaker)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 255mm
Inscription: Signed by all participants
Edition: One of two copies


Place publication: Brooklyn, NY
Publisher: Organik

Additional notes:
Binding: hand sewn Coptic binding, decorated boards with eggshell mosaic by Kurt Allerslev.

Faces and rats painted by Laura Smith.

Media: acrylic paint and markers, ink jet printing, Japanese black ink, various other inks, graphite dust painting, turmeric pigment, walnut ink, xylene ink transfer, wax and graphite rubbing from various implements and other media.

Paper: Primarily "Beeholder" paper made of cotton, hemp, and an entire haircut's worth of Christopher Wilde's hair, a genetic signature embedded in the pulp. The paper was formed in Stevens Point, WI with Jeff Morin. There are some other papers of various origin as well.

Book housed in a yellow clampshell box with the title on the cover made by Peter Carstens in 2011.

Ref: GB/12398







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