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"I first became interested in the Japanese beetle in 2012 during a particularly hot and dry summer in Iowa City. Perhaps it was the result of the season or of my having moved to a new home ripe with some of the beetle's preferred foods, but I became overwhelmed by its pervasive, relentless assault on my garden. As the summer wore on, I began finding leaf remains gathering at the bases of trees and blowing in the wind as if it were fall. Their presence was out of place; out of season. But when I began to look more closely, what struck me was the beauty of form that the beetle had inadvertently left behind. Starved of oxygen and drained of color, these leaf skeletons would soon crumble and return to the earth. But, for a moment, they existed between realms, and reflected a loss that spoke of the complexity of the natural world. Somehow, it seems, even an act of destruction can leave something beautiful in its wake."--Artist's statement from colophon.

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Title
Leavings
Creator
Covell, Anne,, book artist.
Sin Nombre Press,, publisher.
Published
San Diego, California, Anne Covell of Sin Nombre Press, 2017
Edition
Standard edition.
Full Collection Name
Artist Books
Subject (Topic)
Japanese beetle Host plants -- In art.
Type
Image
Format
Japanese paper (handmade paper)
artists' books (books)
Artists' books.
Accordion fold format (Binding)
Gampi fibers (Paper)
Livres d'artistes.
Extent
1 volume (unpaged)
Other Physical Details
color illustrations
Dimensions
25 x 12 cm
Archive
Environmental Design Library
Note
Artist's book by Anne Covell.
Cover title.
Statement of responsibility from colophon.
The work features the repeated image of a hand-drawn leafy branch printed on hand-dyed paper that becomes progressively paler on successive leaves.
Colophon printed on separate sheet.
Accordion fold format.
"The standard edition is letterpress printed from hand-drawn images on photopolmer plates. It is housed in handmade paper wrapper that has been dyed with persimmon tannin and hand burnished. Edition of 15."--Artist's website.
"Leavings contains 12 folios of 100% Japanese Gampi that have been hand-dyed with persimmon tannin and treated with konnyaku to mimic the sound and texture of withering foliage. This standard edition was letterpress printed from hand-drawn images by Anne Covell of Sin Nombre Press in San Diego, CA & Iowa City, IA."--Colophon ("San Diego, CA & Iowa City, IA" is handwritten).
"Twenty standard copies, five deluxe copies, and two artist copies labeled A and B, comprise this edition."--Colophon.
Each copy is signed, numbered, and dated by the artist.
Also published in a deluxe edition of 5 copies, housed in a hard-cover Japanese portfolio and containing a linden leaf specimen.
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