Silence is an Orchard.
(Portland, OR: Vela Noche, 2010). Folio. (17)ff. One of thirty copies, this one being out of series. Fourteen of Lauren Henkin's photographs make up the majority of the book, with Kirsten Rian's poem, "Fieldnotes," appearing on the penultimate page. The poem, from which the book's title derives, meditates with equal parts fondness and sadness on the quietude of memory, and the tension that lies between recording a moment and letting it pass away. Henkin's photographs capture this same feeling, depicting different views of a single field located in Acadia, Maine. Her images target the field's present state, but even so, let the present slip; they are black and white, leaving color up to the inaccuracies of the viewer's imagination. The field of memory—and of photographic record—is already past, a different place by the time the images have reached publication. Printed on Japanese kozo paper, the book is a collaboration between five Northwest women artists: Rian, Henkin, Sarah Horowitz (cover etching), Inge Bruggeman (letterpress printing), and Sandy Tilcock (binding). Bound in Bhutan Mitsumata over boards, with Horowitz's etched branches reaching over both covers. Near fine, with single long, thin scuff to upper board. Prospectus laid in. Item #31901
Price: $500.00