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Chronic Freedom

Item date(s): 2010

Scott Holmquist - (book artist)
Douglas Fit - (text by)
Maxwell Schnurer - (text by)
Richard Tacey - (edited by)
Kathy Glass - (edited by)
Joseph Massey - (edited by)
Ami Goldberg - (edited by)
Bridgitte Bartholomy - (edited by)
Chad Harbach - (edited by)

Pages: see details
Size: 490 x 330 x105mm
Inscription: Signed by the bookartist.
Edition: #15/30

Place publication: California
Publisher: Open Secret LLC

Additional notes:
Collation:

1. 3 blank pages

2. Title Page

3. Blank pages containing bullet in cutout portion (vault).

4. Jason Ortiz Robertson 1971-2004. 59pp.

5. Blank pages containing bullet in cutout portion (vault).

6. John Wyatt Jameton 1972-1993. 63pp.

7. Blank pages containing bullet in cutout portion (valult).

8. Sean Thomas Butler Akselsen 1982-2003. 77pp.

9. SoHum Hip Hop. Hippies & Weed 1968-2010. 417pp.

10. Colophon.

11. About inserts in Hippies & Weeds.

Sewn to ⅛ Agrifilm polythylene drip lines for cords and covered with SouthernHumboldt-grown and -milled white oak panels, partially encased in calf skin, and titled with water-jet-cut high-carbon steel letters attached with Devcon® 2 Ton® Clear Epoxy adhesive and printed on 87lb New Leaf® Sakura Silk paper made with 100% de-inked recycled fibre and 50% post-consumer waste, processed chlorine-free.

Scott Holmquist (binding, page layout and editorial design).

The white oak cover panels were made by Dan Primerano at his workshop in Lower Redway. Dan milled the wood with his Alaskan chainsaw mill from a windfall tree on Sprowl Creek Road, Garberville, and another that fell in a winter storm around 1999 on the former Early Ranch in Salmon Creek on Lower Thomas Road.

Fired bullet slugs corresponding in caliber to those which killed Janson, Sean and Wyath preceed their individual sections. They were produced by shooting variously through wood sandwiches and ballistic gelatine rigged in a wood frame with steel-plate backing. The first successful attempts to capture bullets were made in 2007 by Scott Holmquist with Joan and Jim Courtois at their homestead in Briceland, and later at Shooter's firing range in Redway. Further slugs were produced by Scott, Robin Pagliuco and Daniel Willson off Snowcap Road in the hills east of Blue Lake and at Kevin Kaldveer's Old West Shootery and Supply, Eureka. Erik Horvath carved the bullet vaults with an American Line® scalpel fitted with a Havel's, Inc., No. 11 precision point, carbon steel, non-sterile surgical blade.

Ref: GB/13149