NEW ARTIST BOOK!
I didn’t intend to put the words from my one-woman show on paper to be read casually. What We’re Doing In Iowa Instead of Church was meant to be experienced in real-life, in the 3D. An audience member changed my mind when they said they’d love to sit with the fire hose of words that spewed from my jaws for an hour. I tackled the challenge, for myself and the reader—remaining steadfast in keeping the typed words from the hungry large language learners.
This is my first artist book. Inspired by pocket bibles and our human obsession to cell phones. My intention with this format is to force the reader to bend to the words, to strain for understanding, and dig out messages and meanings. The book is fragile and rough. It presents like a found object, a discarded diary, a kept secret that’s full of imperfections. This book erupted from the ether to the final package without computer infiltration.
Typed on a 1960s SM5 Olympia typewriter with photocopied text over black Japanese Unryu paper with a screen-printed cover, printed and bound at Obsolete Press at a secret location in the Catskill mountains.