Secreted Contract by Epping (2 results)

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Number 51 from an edition of only 60 copies. Artist book with the type and imagery, designed by Epping, on a Power Mackintosh and printed on a Hewlett-Packard on Rives Heavyweight White paper. Includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Epping on the colophon page and additionally warmly inscribed by Epping to photographer Joe Jachna. Signed.…

6 3/4 x 11 in., 34 pp., wrappers."Secreted Contract is the second book in a planned series of 28 books that will investigate two operations: an articulation of various mnemonic systems; and the incorporation of an English-language word type (heteronyms) that, like memory, depend upon contextual constructs for their comprehension. Secreted Contract specifically includes an examination of heteronymic shapes and conditions (e.g., is the shape a circle tipped in a perspective or is it an elliptical form existing in a single plane? Is the couple engaged in a romantic, sexual embrace, or a scene of domestic violence?). Trace is a form of template that blends the complexities of desire (as if) and situation (as is). It is this project of visually realizing how surface, trace, and glance might appear within the mnemonic structures that focuses my project."-Ed Epping Designed and printed (on a Hewlett Packard Inkjet printer) by Ed Epping. Bound in paper wrappers by Jill Jevne. This is from an edition of 60 copies, signed by the poet.…