Somerville, MA: Sarah Hulsey, 2018. Single accordion sheet, affixed to paper wrapper cover. One of 50 copies. Signed and numbered by the artist. A poetic visualization of William Harvey's treatise on the circulation of blood in the body, Hulsey's book unfurls to reveal two pathways of blood, one in lighter..... More
Somerville, MA: Sarah Hulsey, 2017. Octavo. One of 30 copies. A series of star charts, Asterisms embodies groups of linguistic sounds as constellations, or "asterisms," as is now the preferred term among astronomers. The phonemes (sounds) of the ten most widely spoken langauges are represented in twenty charts based on..... More
Somerville, MA: Sarah Hulsey, 2022. Oblong 24mo. Unpaginated, accordion-fold with leaves inserted. One of 35 copies. Speech Patterns employs schematic shapes to represent unconsciously known rules of language. Printed backgrounds of words, or of dotted lines in the place of words, suggest the large body of lexical knowledge that every..... More
Somerville, MA: Sarah Hulsey, 2018. Here, Hulsey pursues Galileo's comparison of the study of the cosmos with the study of a book to a literal end, codifying linguistic mathematics through forms offered by translation, Galileo's own astronomical diagrams, and a book's very structure. Where Galileo's metaphor underscored the importance of..... More
Somerville, MA: Sarah Hulsey, 2018. Octavo. One of 20 copies of the standard edition. Here, Hulsey pursues Galileo's comparison of the study of the cosmos with the study of a book to a literal end, codifying linguistic mathematics through forms offered by translation, Galileo's own astronomical diagrams, and a book's..... More
