Published: 2016
8.5″ x 8.5″ (21.59 x 21.59 cm)
Full color bleed on white paper
202 pages
Three-tone patterns generated by a palimpsest of digital layers containing the words TEXT and TEXTILE. The book assembles a hundred variations.
Text and textile are both related to the Latin verb texere, “to weave.” The underpinning concept of the book is to turn text back into textile. My interest in weaving as a metaphor that unites the visual with the textual goes at least as far back as the Abrash paintings. In this case, I also had in mind Henrich Heine’s poem “The Silesian Weavers,” in which weaving becomes the weaving of a curse on the those who impoverished the weavers and suppressed their revolt.
A limited number of signed and numbered copies are available. Please contact me if you’re interested.
A hard copy is available from Amazon. In New York City, Textile is stocked at Printed Matter.
The PDF version is available in the Store.