Deborah Phillips Chodoff – Procrastination – Unique Signed Variant
(Deborah Phillips Chodoff) Procrastination. Unique Variant No. 4. Artist’s book by Deborah Phillips Chodoff. n.p. 2001. Accordion fold. 3.75″ x 8.5″ x 4.75″. Double-sided book object, each side with the word PROCRASTINATION spelt out on each opening. Pages constructed of bookboard, painted bronze & buffed, with backing painted with black vinyl paint. One side has a letter glued to brown card; the other side with white paper containing a large letter, some text and decoration. A plastic timer filled with white grains holds the openings in place with gold-colored wire filaments. At each end of the book are metal clock pieces with a clock face externally, as well as internally, on the one side where black, white and gold wire emerges from the outer side to finish in various shapes, some on brown card, some without. Three metal cogs on the decorative wired side. All laid in a black painted dropback box with a strip of the various letters comprising the title collaged round the base of the box, as well as on top. Titled, signed and dated on the inner lid, together with a collaged image of a broken clock and timers. A unique signed variant in an edition of approximately 6 copies. Fine.
We waited for the completion of this clever conceptual book for some years! It was a tremendous amount of work to find all the components and construct the ‘book’. However, the wait was well worth it!
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