The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill
is a collaboration between artist Emilie Clark and poet Lyn Hejinian. In
the first half of the book, Clark's richly layered monoprints respond to
Hejinian's aphoristic poems; in the second half, Hejinian comments on Clark.
The book presents a series of fairy tales gone awry-gone from the secure
world of familiar knowledge and avuncular authority imparted to children
into a hilarious, dark and dramatic space in which thinking happens in
the seams between sentences. While Hejinian's poems investigate the social
logic that binds short, illustrative moral narratives, Clark's monoprints
invent a space for this investigation in which rich colors, widely various
drawing, printing and transfer images behave almost as characters. The
book comprises thirty-one images and thirty-one texts plus front and back
matter. It measures 10" w x 11 1/2" h. Philip Gallo set the type and printed
the text on Rives BFK; Emilie Clark made the images, unique in each copy
of the edition of 61 of which 45 are for sale. Judith Ivry made the bindings
and slip cases. $3,000.
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