32 x 24 x 2 cm. Regular edition of 35 with deluxe version of 10 copies. Set by hand using Bembo type. Images were etched on copper. Coles' poem was written as an ongoing response to Ure's Italy sketchbooks and to the images as they evolved later in the studio. The University of Utah and the Faculty Creative Research Grant made possible an extended trip to Italy in the winter of 2002 for the artist. Maureen O'Hara Ure: "What an extraordinary gift, the time to travel alone in the winter in Italy, drawing 10 hours a day those three weeks in Rome and Florence, Siena and Venice. Returning to my studio, I set out using the stronger fragments from my sketchbooks to build a series of black and white paintings on panel. During this phase, Katharine Cole and I met frequently to discuss our works-in-progress, particularly her drafts of the piece which appears here as the title poem. Before turning the pages over to the binder, I watercolored 15 of the books." $850 Deluxe Edition with colored images in clamshell box |
