Mary Risala Laird
Anita Barrows Boxed Set , 2014
Artwork Shop
10 7/8 x 7 3/8
x 1 1/8
in
Kindred Flame by Anita Barrows/ Illustrated by Mary Laird
10” x 6 11/16”
Finalist in the Carl Hertzog Book Design Competition for 2009.
90 copies for sale. 101 in edition. 46 Pages . Six Poems. Copper corners, Barcham Green Chatham endpapers and cover papers. Covers lined with Masa, then hand-stenciled on Chatham side. 105 runs in the book. Each page has abstract woodblocks. Anita’s poems move from conscious plane to invisible plane and back, spiraling between worlds. Laced binding based on one of Priscilla Spitler’s. I had to deconstruct her book in order to figure it out! Sewn on double cords with red kangaroo laces from Australia. Hand-sewn headbands in red & white linen thread.
Jagged Stones by Anita Barrows / Illustrated by Ciel McKay
10 x 6 ½ x ½ inches, 44 pages
Jagged Stones is collaboration between poet Anita Barrows, her eleven year old granddaughter, Ciel McKay, and artist/printer Mary Risala Laird. Ciel drew and beautifully executed seven linoleum cuts. The British Library hopes she will continue her direction as an artist. She had tea there with her grandmother last spring. Yes, they bought two books ! You should, too.! Set in Dante by the Bixler’s, letterpress printed on Mohawk by Mary Risala Laird and Anita Barrows. Binding of burnt red Japanese cloth drummed over boards; a thin black line of board extends over the fore-edges of the covers. Sewn with red linen thread using a link stitch, onto three small bands of purely decorative black goatskin. Edition of one hundred fifteen. Ninety for sale.
DROP SPINE BOX
An elegant drop spine box, housing two powerful books by Berkeley poet, Anita Barrows! Left tray lined with sand-colored micro-suede, mirrored by jet-black micro-suede on the right, which has a small step built in to accommodate the quarter inch difference in book widths. Outsides of trays are covered with Japanese black silk with mohair sand-colored inclusions. Finished box measures 10 7/8 x 7 3/8 x 1 1/8 inches. Thirty boxes of Japanese burnt red cloth with black shimmer, overprinted with Anita Barrows’ linoleum cut. Names are letterpress printed on spine. Twenty-five boxes of burnt red Brillianta cloth, same cloth as cover of Jagged Stones. Also printed on cover and spine.
$1,425