5.13 x 15.25"; 44 pages. Printed on white Mohawk Superfine acid-free archival paper. Duotones and triple color prints. Pre-press digitally processed with Clifton Meador at the Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase, on the Macintosh Quadra using Quark XPress and Photoshop software. Printed by Lori Spencer at the Borowsky Center. Fold-out cover. Publicity card: "This richly visual bookwork intersects the polarities between the past (modernist idealizations and paradoxes of truth, beauty, freedom) with the present's postmodernism hybridized climate of mutations and artificial simulations. Are the conventional intellectual and biological dimensions we have always known about to be invaded by a plague-like viral infection - to produce a novel, unpredictable species? Are we confronting a future where conditions of human origin are in danger of being replaced through technological strategies? Will we create cyborgs - half human, half machine - objects of fear because they are empty of a spiritual core, without knowledge, without wisdom and compassion? 'paradoxic mutations' explores the new frontiers where boundaries of the self, of memory, and of identity have been violated. ""A special feature of this visual book is its fold-out character, opening out layer after layer of images which can be seen as a totality. When opened, the pages reveal more visual connections to each of five themes. When the book is turned over, a new set of images are presented for opening and relating to each other." |
