Title from title page of bound volume; imprint from colophon.
Additional text, colophon, and illustrations on 3 unnumbered sheets (24 x 12 cm) laid in box.
"Concept, design, printing and binding: Veronika Schäpers in collaboration with Susan Pietzsch. Text: Henry David Thoreau, Solitude from Walden. Letterpress from polymer plates on medical filtration paper. 14 round paper filters printed with graphics taken from COVID-19 data. Edition of 50 copies with Arabic numbering and 8 copies with Roman numbering."
Modified accordion-fold format, with additional leaves attached to alternating folds. In a cardboard slipcase with cutout features made to resemble an at-home COVID test.
Full printed beige stiff-paper boards; bound tue-mouche, with yap edges and exposed sewn hinges; cover lettered in spring green; in a stiff paper folding portfolio.
Nine sheets of thin laid paper, each folded and framed at the sides with mesh gauze to resemble surgical face masks. Each 'mask' depicts an outdoor scene or streetscape, with additional details and text of a poem revealed between the folds. Two additional 'masks' provide a summary at the beginning and the full text of the poem, signed and dated by the artist, at the end. All laid in a clear resealable plastic bag.
"In winter 2023 Alyson printed the letterpress originals in Portland, OR with 14 pt Garamond from the Dale Guild Foundry on her Chandler and Price Pilot Old Style. The letterpress covers were printed back in Portland by Alyson using 24pt Garamond English Italic and 8pt Univers Light Roman from M & H Type. Once shipped back to Oakland, the books were finished and bound in spring 2023 by Zach using a Singer Series 7-11, with final edition of 200"
15 cards : illustrations ; 13 x 18 cm/ Title card and 14 illustrated postcards, all tied with twine and laid in a cardboard gift box.
The artist recalls her experience of the COVID-19 pandemic from March, 2020 through November, 2021 as a student at Washington University in St. Louis, unable to go home to China. She creates a series of postcards to send to her family in Chengdu, chronicling her daily life and depicting the loneliness of a campus in lockdown with stark pen-and-ink drawings.
A young boy holds a white piece of paper to the left of the composition vertically and chickens in various colors assemble below and around him in a semi circle shape
A dark-skinned Black person wearing a white chef hat pours into a white bowl in the foreground while a medium dark-skinned Black child with chin-length braids gazes at them
A dark-skinned Black person wearing a white chef hat pours into a white bowl in the foreground while a medium dark-skinned Black child with chin-length braids gazes at them
