Spine of white leather over wooden boards. Housed in a beige drop-back box.: 233 x 328 x 120mm with title on the spine.

Joshua Heller. Cat 38, Item 37

Over 90 archival inkjet color prints with added inkmarks laid on handmade paper; each page letterpress printed with a few words by Brendan Isaac Jones. Bound by Barry Spence with white leather spine over 5 sewn bands, and wood boards. Gray handmade paper endpages. In a cream linen dropback box with paper title label on spine. No. 3 of 15 numbered copies, plus 2 A.P. copies.

"The archival inkjet photographs were printed at the Print Studios at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville . . . I then printed the three layers of lithographic inks .. Daniel Keleher and I did all the letterpress at Wild Carrot Letterpress . . ." Thorsten Denneline.

"I first came across Thorsten Dennerline’s prints of insects at the Mac Dowell Colony. He had opened his studio to visitors, and his images were posted on the wall . . . It was a fall evening in New Hampshire, and people shied away from the entrance. But the insects, frozen by the double-shot of a needle through their working and the snap of the camera that chronicles their deathmasks - I could not stop staring.

"Thorsten’s inkmarks deepen the images. Swirling, slashing, dotted, subtle . . ., barely visible until your eye begins trolling - the marks raised the question of to what degree did these insects still have life? Not life in the received sense, . . . But rather a quickness of their own given by Thorsten’s hand.

". . . It was difficult for me, unmoving as the cold draft came through the door that night in New Hampshire, not to ask what these insects - and how I was seeing them - told me about my own life.

"It is an honor to ask this question apace with Thorsten’s prints." - Brendan Isaac Jones.

"This book project began in 2002, when I started photographing insects from the collection of the entomology labs at the University of Massachusetts, with access generously provided by Benjamin Normark, the curator of the collections. I was captivated by the idea of looking closely at these beautiful specimens and their death silence created by the wounds of the display pins. - Dennerline.

A fascinating project beautifully executed!