5.5” diameter in 6.25 x 7.5” box; 11 layered pages. A round tray built into clamshell box holds the book. The box, covered in paste papers with a titled cloth spine, allows for easy storage. This native legend of a geographical formation tells how boulders came to be strewn on a beach. A large ancestral canoe, the Te Ataiteuru, crossed the great ocean Kiwa but was wrecked on a reef. The cargo floated to shore coming to rest on a beach along the Otago Coast of New Zealand where it turned to stones that came to be known as the Moeraki Boulders. A round book composed of various interlocking sheets. Steiner's interest in book structures is impressively demonstrated here. The nonadhesive concertina is simply bound at the spine so the book can be opened out into a necklace-like chain of deep earth-toned pages—reds, greens, blues, browns. Each page is layered, the printed fore sheet backed by a textured page. Textured papers were handmade into deckled circles by Steiner for the edition using ginger stalks, banana leaves, and New Zealand flax. Paste papers and Canson Mi-Tientes form the links in the chain. Each spread is a display of five different papers. |
