Counting Coup Press ~ New Mexico
(Suzanne Vilmain)

Suzanne Vilmain: "My experience with books has been a life-long engagement – scribbling marginalia, deconstruction, conceptual, rebellious, reader, writer, designer, typesetter, printer, artist, collector, bookstore, book maker and now letterpress. I've been under the influence of teachers, mentors, books read, art seen, workshops and in the company of many collaborators.

"My mind's eye is like a spinning collide-ascope with surrealist-einsteinian hands (4th dimension) which includes transparency, impression & mark making."

ALPHABET of TEXTure
from a series of alphabets
By Suzanne Vilmain
Sante Fe, New Mexico: Counting Coup Press, 2010. One-of-a-Kind.

7 x 7.5 x 1"; 86 unnumbered pages. Letterpress, origami, suminagashi, pressure printing, and collage. Printed with multiple passes. Five sewn signatures. Hardbound with leather attachments. Slipcased using Arches paper. Wrapped in 20.5 x 13.5" canvas cloth with alphabets and numbers overprinted.

Colophon: "a gathering of recycled book pages / letterpress printed, multiple passes, / pressure printing, western & Asian marbling, / collage, exquisite corpse, origami & map folds, / palimpsest & re-constructed / sequence and coherence are held together, with / alphabets over images over text not meant to be read - / texture & pattern, layers & juxtaposition / zigzag/wabi sabi/surreal influences & references."

Text includes Homeopathic Dose of Poem by Miriam Sagan, quotation by R.D. Laing, and Vilmain’s personal aphorisms.
(SOLD)