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Two Booklets By Shani Mootoo

2020, 2024

  • How do the wartime living breathe?

    18 cm × 10 cm folded, 18 cm × 40 cm extended
    2024

  • How do the wartime living breathe?

    18 cm × 10 cm folded, 18 cm × 40 cm extended
    2024

  • How do the wartime living breathe?

    18 cm × 10 cm folded, 18 cm × 40 cm extended
    2024

  • Initiate

    18.5 cm × 14.5 cm × 0.8 cm
    2020

  • Initiate

    18.5 cm × 14.5 cm × 0.8 cm
    2020

  • Initiate

    18.5 cm × 14.5 cm × 0.8 cm
    2020

  • Initiate

    18.5 cm × 14.5 cm × 0.8 cm
    2020

Artist Statement

Produced by DeadCat Press. Initiate has a letterpress cover with embossment. How do the Wartime Living Breathe? is in full letterpress plus embossment. Very limited editions, available from the author.

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The Raven

E. A. Poe’s classic poem as a hand-bound miniature book with an embossed silk cloth cover.

Crown and Brim

Crown and Brim, by A. N. Wlock, my first letterpress book as printer-publisher.

INVENTORIES

My first letterpress bookwork. Its production was an inventory of observations, autobiographical details, wood engravings, and technical printing methods.



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