walking bird press — Is it a Memory…Or was it a Dream? / The Show of Dr. Mortvisage Tara Bryan & Lois Morrison

(walking bird press) Is it a Memory … or was it a Dream? /The Show of Dr Mortvisage. Dos-a-dos book by Tara Bryan and Lois Morrison. New Jersey. Newfoundland. 2006. 2010. n.p. 9.25” x 7.125”. Bound with illustrated and titled buff color boards; open stitched spine. A limited edition of 25 copies. Signed by the artists. Fine.

Colophons state: “Pop-up, pull-out, turning-wheel movement, with laser, inkjet, letterpress, collage, gocco and rubber-stamped images printed on a variety of papers; a few retouched with colored pencil. Hinges of Tyvek”. – Tara Bryan.

“Gocco printed images … on heavier paper glued to a Gocco printed background. The typeface is original. Others are Big Top, Viking, Bard, Aardvark and Vivienne. Papers are Strethmore, Grosse Pointe’s Synergy, Tyvek and Tara’s own. Gone back into with Pigma pens, hand-cut, assembled and bound. The text is mine. “- Lois Morrison.