COLOPHON: "Wings of freedom and caskets on wheels provide icons for this birth through death journey. An American Life (tm) represented in images that make up our visual associations. This edition of ten books features hand made blue jean paper made by M. Robert Wagner and LisaBeth [sic] Robinson. The end sheets are blue prints of the Madison sewers found in a dumpster dive. Bound in a modified pamphlet stitch, these books have three toner registered Xerox prints and rubber stamped text. The covers were painted, plastic embossed (thermographed), and sealed in lacquer red on folder weight paper, and a cut away frontice [sic] image of Mr. Vitallo disguised as death. A novel approach to narrative, with plenty of hands-on-attention."
Imprint information from separately printed colophon. Signatures: NJV, Glyph of CW, Shon S. Schooler and Nugent J. Vitallo. Press tradition: Conceptual. Content type: Narrative. Thematic type: Journey from birth to death. Binding: Bifurcated pamphlet. Structure: Codex. Image media: Found photos, photocopying manipulation, painting, embossed plastic, ink. Printing media: Hand-set rubber stamp set, photo copies. Paper: Stock, handmade blue jean paper by Mark Wagner, blue prints of the Madison sewers, folder-weight paper. Other materials: Lacquer. Cover collage portrait of Shon S. Schooler by Mark R. Wagner.