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Heteroglossia

Bookwork of nine individually coloured stone lithographs with hand-offset printed text, Simili Japon 225g paper, case bound with hand washed book cloth, letterpress printed cover, closed dimensions 54 x 47 cm. Drawn, printed, bound and published by the artist in an edition of 7, 2023.

A 'cosmic' glossary, Heteroglossia reveals what lies beneath its printed pages, and bears witness to the embedded presence of lives shaped by the practices of stone lithography. Discretely inflecting the volume’s aesthetic qualities and content, is the 19th century Pathological Anatomy of Robert Carswell MD. Explicitly featured, are quotations from technical handbooks, together with a polyphony of voices from diverse fields of knowledge.







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