UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Cat. 340: My Garden from Weeding Height. Lois Morrison del. 1993. Offset litho. Accordion-folding peepshow mounted within book-type covers measuring 110 x 210 mm. Five cut-out panels. The peepshow expands by paper bellows (t. and b.) to approximately 220 mm. The cut-out front-face consists of luxuriant vegetation, as do each of the cut-out panels and the back-scene. The vegetation on the cut-out panels spills out of the sides. A note inside the front cover reads: ‘Printed with a Gocco printer on Levor 100 and Masa. The cover is vintage chicken-feed sack. Of an edition of 25 this is # 22. Drawings © 1993 Lois Morrison.’
Cat. 341: peter norton family christmas project ... by Anna Gaskell. made by Intervisual Communications, Inc. 2001. Half-tone
Cat. 340. Expanded.
Accordion-folding peepshow, with five cut-out panels. The front-face measures 152 x 177 mm. The peepshow expands by paper bellows (l. and r.) to approximately 250 mm. Double-ended peepshow. The front and back covered with cloth. The frontface is blank with a peep-hole slightly lower than centre. Title, artist, and maker appear on the back. An explanatory note on a separate card tells us: ‘Each year the Peter Norton Family commissions an art edition to celebrate the Christmas and holiday season. Gaskell was born in 1969 in Des Moines, Iowa, and currently lives in New York City. Her works create imaginary worlds of fairy tales and myths populated by mysterious, haunting female figures... As we look through the peep hole to the scene inside the bellows we see a deep mossy well inhabited by siren-like figures gesturing towards a floating body that appears to be beyond their grasp. When we flip the object and look through the back this soul returns our stare. The photographs for this project were taken by Gaskell at the Netherworld Well on the grounds of Villa Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal. The design of the well and surrounding gardens are based on Dante’s “Inferno”.’ The publication is housed in a silk-tied portfolio, which is too small to protect the item properly.