Jennifer Van de Pol ~ Canada

a handful of odes
By Jennifer Van de Pol
Vancouver, British Columbia: (2006), Jennifer Van de Pol. Edition of 15.

7.25 x 10.75". Title page and colophon letterpress printed in hand-set Gill Sans at the Heavenly Monkey Press. Illustrations reproduced from the basic ink drawings with archival ink jet. Printed on Rives BFK. 10 x 7" sheets folded in quires and sewn on tapes. Bound in a painted dust jacket. Housed in a brown cloth slipcase with paper title on spine.

Jennifer Van de Pol: "This book collects about 30 drawings made during an artist residency in Sweden…. The original images were ink on paper, with watercolor highlights. The title of each drawing - sometimes enigmatic, sometimes contemplative - is rendered by hand below."

Colophon: "The drawings in this book were made during an artist residency in Sweden, June 2006. The first words I wrote as I set pen to paper in my studio there were, ‘I have traveled these thousands and thousands of miles in order to make these marks. They will slowly make a mass of marks, & then, a book.’ You now hold the promised book in your hands.

"Each copy of this book is a unique variation on the original drawings. The images have been printed digitally, and then individually embellished and coloured. The jacket has been fully painted, so each one is a little different."
$350 (Last Copy)