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| Theia Mania By Alicia Bailey Aurora, Colorado: ravenpress, 2010. Edition of 36. 6.75 x 5.25 x 1" tin container with snap lid holds 3 books, sachet, and audio CD. Colophon tipped in interior lids of container. Stiff decorative 2" cloth band slips on tin as decorative closure mechanism. Madness of the Gods: 4.9 x 4.9"; 16 pages. Bound with tinted tyvek using woven binding based on a Claire van Vliet structure. Pastepaper pastedowns. Illustrated paper boards. Potions: 1 x 3.75"; 10 pages. Piano hinge binding using metal hinges. Illustrated paper boards. Contributors: 1.12" diameter circular book; 22 pages. Accordion structure. Ribbon spine. Laid in round aluminum tin with clear lid. Title printed on lid. Theia Mania CD produced by Alicia Bailey & Scott Waknin, AMP A/V Studio: 4.6" round with printed illustrated label. Housed in matching illustrated 5" square envelope. Sachet of Herbs: 1 x 3.5" clear plastic envelope; herb seeds. Illustrated sticky closure. Instruction sheet laid in. Text visible through enclosure. Printing techniques: laser etching, color laser print, color inkjet print, black and white laser print, laserprinted metal foil, and relief printing. Alicia Bailey, introduction: "This project is the result of an intermingling of stories told by those who have been struck by a sensation of instant connection with another. In the classical world such pricks from a dart of Eros were called Theia Mania (madness of the gods). "Heidi Zednik and I began by collecting audio version of stories told by those willing to participate in the project. We recorded 12 such stories and these are the basis for both the text and audio portions of this piece. Two of the stories I wished to include could not be told by their subjects, so I wrote my own versions, presented as oral presentations on the CD." $540 |
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Box of Eros 3.125 x 3.125 x 4.5" closed; initial opening 12 x 12". Four books: 2.5 x 4" each; 12 pages each. Drop down box design with lid. Box covered in handprinted bookcloth. Images and text inkjet printed with archival ink on rag paper. The four small books are secured with ribbon-and-button tie closure. Artwork by Heidi Zednik. Designed and produced by Alicia Bailey. Each box wall is the back cover for a small book of erotic haiku and paintings commissioned for this project. The four books are titled Clamant; Rapturous; Exigency; and Amative.
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alphabet of desire 6.75 x 6.75"; 26 pages. Over the edition, the layout of the book is consistent yet each print is unique. Text laserprinted on Arches watercolor paper. All images painted on an open screen with water based acrylic inks, then hand pulled for each of the four colors, allowing artistic variation within the edition. Bound drum leaf style. Spine is goat skin and Moriki hand embossed with letters of the alphabet. Covers are mono screenprinted with embossed alphabet on Rives BFK. Cover board edges wrapped with Moriki, endpapers handmade by Katie MacGregor, page edges treated with blue pigmented wax. Label is foil printed Goatskin. This book is an extended love poem in the form of an abecedary. The illustrations are abstract expressions of the text. The text not only chronicles the celebration of a relationship but expresses a wish to not forget and to remain attentive to love. a $1200 |
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Cosmeceutical Collection Three books housed in 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5" handmade clamshell box covered with pink paper and leather. Title in script on lid. Colophon tipped on to bottom of box. Signed and numbered. Box designed with cutouts to hold each of the three books. Ribbon lift for eye shadow and compact. Beauty compact, hinged: 3 x 2.5" rounded plastic compact with paper title label on cover. Book: 14 pages, patterned paper endpages. The interior of the compact consists of a main compartment with a smaller hidden compartment underneath. The book's bottom is adhered to the bottom of the main compartment (which is the top of the secret compartment.). Laser transfer images. Secret compartment opens to reveal mirror and line drawing. Laserprint on iridescent text-weight paper and color inkjet on sumi paper. Colophon tipped on bottom of compact. Signed and numbered. Eye shadow case, hinged: 2.6 x 2.6" square. Three books: each .75 x 1.6"; 4 pages. Accordion structure. Laserprint on paper. Polymer clay with laserprint transfer. Metal foil. Magnet boards to hold in slots of case. Mirrored case with spring clasp. Paper title label on lid. Colophon tipped on to the bottom of the case. Signed and numbered. Mascara tube: 4.25 x .5" glass test tube; mascara wand with wood bead handle. Color inkjet label on tube. Scroll: 2.5 x .4" closed; extends to 9.5". Laserprint on Tairei paper. Signed and numbered at the end of the scroll. Each makeup piece in this assemblage contains one or more miniature books about the history of makeup. ravenpress: "Know this: beauty matters. ... Beauty, however bought, however paid for, will transform men into admirers. "Belladonna: Three accordion books detail various aspects of the Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade). This plant, although toxic, has been used by women medicinally and as an aid to beauty. "Lash Lure: Lash Lure was the product that prompted FDA involvement with cosmetics in the 1930's. "Compact Beauty: Media myths are presented in the form of absolute truisms as is typically found in women's magazine ads and articles. These are presented along with images of girls/women that are ... also taken from the same sources but appear nonetheless to be out of context. On the bottom hinged platform is an image of a type popular in Victorian times which initially appears rather chaste but changes radically when the woman's head is covered and the image is viewed in the provided mirror." |
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Green is the Vein 5.25 x 5.75 x .5"; 20 pages. Hand printed sheets, bound in drum leaf style, with transfer text and hand-applied color, plus two pastepaper endsheets. Page edges have been painted with bright green acrylic ink. The spine is goat with a leaf pattern embossed from one of the linocuts used in the text block. The two-layer covers have an underboard leafed with variegated metal, which is exposed by the top board cutaway. Top board debossed. A song of erotic celebration. Alicia Bailey: "The text is extracted from Barry Dempster's piece 'Green is the Vein...' published in the collection 'Letters from a Long Illness with the World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems' " |
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Anguine 4.5 x 5.5" slotted zig zag book. Housed in 6.5 x 5.5 x 1" box. With color monoprint images and laser transfer text on Rives lightweight buff paper. Page backs are hand painted and stenciled. The covers are snakeskin overlaid with hand-tinted sharkskin paper. The box is leather-spined with hand-painted cloth covers and a hand-painted, recessed label on the front cover. Alicia Bailey: “A dream or perhaps a fantasy about waking with a snake under a starlit desert sky, this book describes a titillating experience in the Southwest canyon country.” |
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Ab 4.625 x 3"; 32 pages. This small book is bound in millimeter style with a maroon leather spine and Pamela Smith hand marbled papers on the covers. The title label is gold laserfoil printed on the same marbled paper and inset. Each of the 32 pages is hand painted with inks on Sumi paper. Text is laserprinted. Title page is heat embossed Gocco print with hand painting on Nideggan paper. The wraparound case is of burgundy book cloth and lined with Smith marbled paper with a complementary pattern to book's cover. The case cover is Gocco printed in gold. Illustrations and book design by Alicia Bailey. Ab means, in Aramaic, “the breath of life.” The text of this book includes descriptions of the physiological workings of the circulatory system and Aubri Aleka Keleman's poem "Suggestions for Improving the Heart and Its Workings." |
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Safe as Houses 15 x 6 x 1"; 18 pages. Nine double-spread illustrations, color copied onto Mohawk superfine text. Housed in an arch-shaped lidded wooden box. Hinged lid designed as door. Bound in board style with exposed spine. ravenpress: "Extracts from the poem 'To Sylvia, Grown Daughter.' This book pairs portions of the poem with 9 paintings by Alicia Bailey. Adcock's writing describes the 'house of your first name' and details points of access to that house (ordinary love, fury, or any dying)." Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poems from LSU Press. She was a Guggenheim Fellow for 2002-2003 Adcock has twice been a Pushcart Prizewinner, and has won North Carolina's Governor's Medal for Literature, and the Texas Institute of Letters Prize. |
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Tongue Tied 2.5 x 3.75 x 4"; six panels. Text is laser print on lace paper. Artist's photographs are inkjet printed on sumi paper. The two-sided accordian book is hinge-bound with 16 penny nails and housed in a nailmesh and wood structure. Alicia Bailey: "The poem by Patricia Beers describes the almost unbearable results of a lifetime of keeping silent. Please handle carefully, could cause injury or pain. The artist's photographs allude to bondage and repression. Object and text initially hidden by the photographs are revealed as the reader interacts with this book." I WAS BORN $140 |
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Jump 8.5 x 8.5" closed; 8.5 x 25.5" extended; 22 leaves. French door construction. Bound with three brass rings on each side. Images and text: black-and-white and color copies on transparent stock, color inkjet on Arches 90 lb. rough watercolor, 90 lb. cover and transparency, laserprint on a variety of text weight papers. Hand painted Arches cover. Cover: momi wrapped museum board with Canson endpapers. Endpapers: hand applied enamel and stampings. Title on cover: black and white xerox transfer. Black velcro closures. Excerpts from Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Aubri Keleman's "Someone Has Made a Mistake These Women Are Fish," and Heidi Zednik's "Skinning Blue." An inventive examination of gravity, both physical and metaphorical. French door books are sometimes irritating because of the need to rebuild the sequence. Jump more than repays the effort. |
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Mexico Stories 5.75 x 4"; 24 pages. Bound in a dos-a-dos-a-dos pamphlet stitched wraparound cover. Cover 130 lb. cotton watercolor paper with hand applied acrylic patterning and tipped in cover illustration and title. Text and title page illustrations laserprinted on 80 lb. Howard Mill crushed leaf paper. Illustrations color inkjet on mulberry paper tipped in. Decorative page elements hand stamped. With dyed cotton string and coconut beads wrap for closing. Carolyn Hull: "I had the privilege of working with Clark Blaise at the Latin American Writers' Workshop in January 96. These stories come from that magic and surreal time. My own heritage growing up along the El Paso/Juarez border is similar to these stories. To quote Robert Bly, my soul is here for its own joy. I am here to interpret one dimension for another." |
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Phoenix Prayer 11 x 11"; 12 pages. Black-and- white silver print photographs with surface-applied color and copper leaf. Stiff leaf bound and cased into dimensional bookboard cover split board technique. Covers are handmade paper molded over embossed boards with copper leaf title and surface-applied metallic pigments. Leather spine embossed on etching press from covers and handpainted with acrylic and metallic powders. Page edge stenciled with metallic inks. Copper leafing throughout. Alicia Bailey's languid images in muted tones plus an excerpt from Katherine Mosby's "The Book of Common Prayer" (1996): "A gentle stirring / like flutters / of birds / filling the garden / like vowels / swelling in the mouth / tentative kisses / these unfinished prayers / Do not break my heart." |
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