ARTIST BOOK

House of Bones

House of Bones is a letterpress-printed artist book that uses woodcut images to illustrate an original poem about the natural cycles of life and death, inspired by a verse from the Buddhist Dhammapada. The images are paired with type handset in Bembo. The cover is handmade cotton paper with grass inclusions, echoing a refrain from the poem: “the grass grows tall.”

Edition of 22, Spring 2018. Printed at The University of Alabama.
Materials: Rives heavyweight paper; handmade cotton paper cover; woodcut images.
Size: 4 x 6”

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