Spaceheater Editions ~ Arizona
(Phil Zimmerman)

Nature Abhors (unavailable until late Summer 2009)
By Phil Zimmerman
Rhinebeck, NY: 2003. Edition of 150.

5.25 x 5.25"; 30 pages in corrugated-paper fold-out box. Construction based on a model developed by Claire van Vliet from a form originally created by Hedi Kyle. Photograph on page six by Elizabeth Alderman. To be read through on one side, then on the reverse. Accordion-folded, each sheet affixed to the next with paper tabs illustrated with segments of spinal vertebrae. Housed in illustrated sleeve numbered by the artist. The whole housed in illustrated cardboard box also numbered by the artist. Signed by the artist.

Phil Zimmerman: "In addition to being a great vehicle for communicating directly to an audience, artists' books have the wonderful advantage of being time-based like video and film. Static pictures on a wall seem and impoverished way of making an artistic statement after one works with sequence, rhythm, movement, translucency, narrative arc; the list goes on and on. I know I am biased: I have been in love with books ever since I was a small child, but the medium is so rich with possibilities that it is hard to go back to working any other way....

"My book entitled Nature Abhors is about loss, the inevitable by-product and, (perhaps pessimistically) the final result of love. In the past four years I have had a great deal of loss in my life. This book is a rumination on what loss has meant for me personally and also what I have found has been a more universal feeling of loss since 9.11. It is determinedly not about that disaster but more about the zeitgeist since that world-changing event ......."
$375 (unavailable until late Summer 2009)