Naughty Dog Press ~ Iowa
(Emily Martin)

Sleepers, Dreamers & Screamers
By Emily Martin
2006. Edition of 15.

9.5 x 7 x 2"; 12 pages. An accordion construction with five double page pop-ups. Printed letterpress with hard covers. First and last pop-ups constructed using assorted Asian, Western and dollhouse papers. Three middle pop-ups constructed using a handmade cotton and Philippine gampi paper made for the project by Bridgett O'Malley of Cave Paper. Text and figures printed in letterpress on BFK white and buff papers from polymer plates. Font is American Typewriter. Housed in cloth clamshell box with paper title on spine. Paper title label on front of matching cloth covered book boards.

Begun in 2001, Sleepers, Dreamers & Screamers was derailed by events of 9-11. The text was rewritten in the aftermath.

We've all had nightmares. Vivid as they may be there is always that sweet release upon waking. But what happens when events in our waking lives surpass even our most horrific dreams. Where is our release now?

$850

Fly Away
By Emily Martin
2005. Edition of 50.

7 x 6 " closed, triangular accordion book printed letterpress, inkjet and pochoir on Sakamoto paper. A nontraditional variation of the Japanese double leaved album with an attached hard cover wrapped in Moriki paper. Three texts viewed two ways, as the page turns or as a series of hills and valleys when standing. Pochoir and inkjet printed text on Sakamoto paper.

A new book from Emily Martin that muses on the sometime desire to flee one's life. The texts repeat over a yellow brick road, "There's no place like home", flight defined as running away, and the artist's 2001 essay on escape.
$250

Slices
By Emily Martin
2004. Edition of 50.

4 x 8" A letterpress printed carousel book constructed of Moriki paper and Thai striped paper. The text is printed on each of the twelve cake slices. Hard cover of book covered in Moriki paper with embedded magnetic strips to form the circular cake structure.

An artist book produced in celebration of the artist's 50th birthday. Opening a pink doily lined cake box one finds a celebratory birthday book. The carousel book forms twelve slices of "cake" with each slice containing fifty words of text. A wonderful to celebrate one's "coming of age."
$175

The Family Game
By Emily Martin
2003. Edition of 100.

5.5 x 8.5" six page pamphlet on Mohawk superfine paper. Attached cover of Emerald Canford paper. Archival inkjet printed. Contains a colorful pop-up presenting the playing board.

A game for all ages since everyone has a family of some kind. Subtitled "Lose just by playing."
$30

Away
By Emily Martin.
2001. Edition of 100.

3 x 4.25" closed; opens to 24". Accordion structure. Paper over board covers. Letterpress printed.

Ah, summertime is here whenever you open this book. The three Rs are Relaxation, Recreation, and Rejuvenation. The text explores both the pluses and minuses of "getting away from it all." In a reverie of detail, Martin invokes the double-edged lure of the primitive, the cabin by the lake where there is "Nothing to do that you have to do" and "Newspapers are for lighting fires." Yet, eventually, we won't be able stand it anymore, that "chance to do nothing for a week or maybe two, but . . . not a minute longer." The back spread of this two-sided accordion is a continuous image of lounging swimming fishing reading vacationers. . I can smell the marshmallows burning!
$50

In One Ear:
a three part story
By Emily Martin.
Iowa City, Iowa: 1996. Limited Edition.

8.5 x 5"; 12 pages. Pop-up accordion book. Computer printed on commercial papers.

An event from childhood told from three points of view – that of the mother, the victim (Emily), and the sister (Carol) – set off by page placement and different colors of ink. The simplicity of the presentation is high contrast to the emotions and pain recounted.

Young children playing doctor, using the axel from a toy car to give each other shots. Dr. Carol gives patient Emily a shot in the ear, breaking (unintentionally) the patient’s ear drum and damaging two bones in her inner ear. Confusion erupts. The patient is so young (2½) that she doesn’t know who administered the shot. Johnny O, young neighbor scalawag, is blamed. This is the truth that injured Emily carries around about the resulting deafness. She recites the story on cue. Years later with much, much trepidation, Carol confesses to Emily. Emily: “Oh that’s all right Carol. It’s no big deal.”
$25 (Last Copy)

My Twelve Steps
By Emily Martin.
1997. Edition of 100.

6 x 6”. Letterpress printed. Paper over board cover.

These are twelve steps for the recovering enabler. Twelve declarations, each beginning with the words "you can't," that draw a line in the sand and raise the speaker out of co-dependent patterns. The accordion fold book opens vertically to reveal a staircase, twelve paper steps imprinted on each face with text. Threaded with a linen rope, the half-inch steps can be pulled flat at the fore edge to close the cover. Threads are wrapped around two red beads on the front cover—eyes in a staunch face—for closure. A bamboo bar that pulls threads taut or dangles from them like the rung of a rope ladder invites the empathetic reader to pull himself up out of co-dependence. Hope is inherent in the symbol of the staircase, as is the recognition that change is incremental.
$100 (Last Three Copies)

The House Detective, Abridged
By Emily Martin
1995. Edition of 10.

7 x 4.25 x 2" of a series of graduating house shapes with Xeroxes of intaglio prints on Japanese paper with cut up detective novels on foam core. Accordion bound using Japanese screen hinges.

An abridged edition of Martin's original The House Detective.
$100

Does Any of This Look Familiar
By Emily Martin
2002. Edition of 10.

10.5 x 5" letterpress book of five essays with images. Printed with handset type, polymer plates and relief printed images. Hemp and cotton paper made by Lynn Amlie, papermaker at the University of Iowa Center for the Book Paper Facility. Bound in the vade mecum format with a flax wrapper cover, stab binding and hanging strap.

A project by Emily Martin printed while in residence at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Additional funding was provided by the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
$1,300 (Three copies remain in the edition)

Mutually Exclusive
By Emily Martin.
2002. Edition of 50.

A letterpress printed set of 5 magic wallets provoked by the events of 9/11 which address the cacophony of news reports, emotions analysis and opinions (expert and otherwise) that follow in the wake of any major news event. The righteous indignation and reciprocal intolerance, whitewashed by ideals from religion to political correctness, raise the question of personal belief. Using the magic wallet format, the books panels flip back and forth forming two opposing statements that reflect the slipperiness of forging a personal philosophy.

Each of the texts has three layers, the pairs of basic statements in large type and the 10 sets of words from the Pythagorean table of opposites printed in transparent ink. The wallets are contained in a Japanese box wrapper with bone clasps made by Rosa Guimarae. Printed with the assistance of interns during an artist's in residency at the Center for the Book Arts in New York City. Each Wallet is 6 inches by 4 inches.
$450

Juror #13
By Emily Martin.
Iowa City, Iowa: 2001. Edition of 150.

4.5 x 6"; 16 pages. Archival inkjet printed on Crescent and Canson papers. Pamphlet sewn pages and end papers with wraparound paper cover.

Emily Martin in a simple way details the conflicting reactions one might have to serving on a jury. Each statement of the text is paired with another statement. The pages are laid out with one statement along the bottom of the page and the other upside down along the top of the page. The book has two fronts and can be opened from either end for alternative readings.

   Believing the defendant and not the cop is politically correct.

   Believing the defendant and not the cop is naive.
$10

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Crime and Romance
a book in parts
By Emily Martin
Iowa City, Iowa: Naughty Dog Press, 2000. Open Edition.

5.5 x 8.5"; 36 pages. Black-and-white xerox slice book [slice book is Martin's own coinage, see below] with text and images. Card stock with a black plastic comb binding.

A book from Martin's "Eyes Were Watching" series. Each page is divided into thirds; each third holds an image or a connecting phrase (for example,
"Suddenly it was revealed," "Later that same day"); images and phrases can be sequenced in a mix-and-match mode, giving multiple combinations and viewing scenarios. Much like an exquisite corpse structure.

Martin:"I somewhat arbitrarily called them slice books, I think the form predated the Exquisite Corpse games, which did combine images but on intact pieces of paper."
$20

Eyes Were Watching
By Emily Martin
Iowa City, Iowa: Naughty Dog Press, 1995. Edition of 5.

8 x 10"; 20 pages. Limp bound in flax paper with braided cotton cords. Titles silver-stamped on front cover. Etchings plus ten chine-collé images. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Emily Martin: "My work most often is with book forms. I have an ongoing interest in the artist’s book as a container of content. I like the complexity that working with books allows, the materials, the forms, the content all working together. With Eyes Were Watching the relationship between the various features of the book is an important aspect of the content. I draw from my own life, what I read, experience, remember, dream and also make up, is used to develop the content of my books. I want a communication from the book to the viewer, a communication sometimes clear, sometimes ambiguous or subject to interpretation. This is another aspect of the relationship of the book to the viewer."

A Gorey-like story spiced with Martin's humor. These same images and phrases appear in Crime and Romance (Naughty Dog Press, 2000) digitally reproduced and packaged so they can be sequenced in a variety of ways. Here the order is fixed.
$650 (Last copy)

How Can I Love You?
a romance in pieces
By Emily Martin
Iowa City, Iowa: Naughty Dog Press, 2000. Open Edition.

4.25 x 5.5"; 33 pages. A color Xerox slice book. Card stock with a green plastic comb binding.

Emily Martin on her slice books: "I somewhat arbitrarily called them slice books, I think the form predated the Exquisite Corpse games, which did combine images but on intact pieces of paper. I had forgotten children's Mix and Match books, it certainly has weight as to the number of commercially printed books using that term for the form."

Color xerox images from one of her series of bookworks: "It Isn't Always Funny." Pages are divided in thirds, one image per third, for multiple viewing possibilities. No text.
$20

Yes Please, No, No, Never
By Emily Martin.
1998. Edition of 25.

3.5" x 3.5 x 2" Jacob's ladder format of the do's and don'ts of manners. Color Xerox images over binder's board with plastic straps. Contained in a folded box with operating instructions.
$150