Wednesday, July 7, 2010

REPAIRING LOOSE ENDS






William Blake's startling images that accompany his poems in The Book of Urizen (1818): 









And to add to this example of Blake's multimedia booked printed with 28 etched plates predating digital media by nearly 200 hundred years is Anne Carson's "NOX" published in 2010, no doubt a beneficiary of digital photocomposition as is my video made from stills in iMovie.



TO INTERACT WITH THESE PRINTED BOOKS--APPRECIATE THE UNION OF THEIR DESIGN AND TEXT YOU MUST SMUDGE THE PAGE WITH HUMAN DNA

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