Of the Earth - Fine Press Edition

As I began to create images for this collection, I wanted a way to embody the desert in both the images and the prints and to capture fleeting moments, often found in deep canyons of the southwestern US. My goal was to create the same emotion for the viewer that I felt when seeing the composition pop into focus on the ground glass of my camera. I want you to smell the musty air on a crisp autumn morning and listen for the deafening silence. To see these prints is to see and feel a piece of the desert and Of The Earth.

—Michael Strickland

Book Details:

• Fifteen color carbon transfer prints made by Michael Strickland, presented in a removable binding capable of being de-constructed for framing and exhibition of all 15 prints, then re-constructed for display and storage as a book
  

• Prints made using pigments of pulverized earth from around the world
  

• Accompanying text from Michael Strickland and Karl Mueller
  

• Binding design by Daniel Kelm with production by Amy Borezo
  

• Clamshell case of Cave Paper with interior underlayment of Van Heek Scholoco Brillianta cloth
  

• Book covers of Kyoseishi kozo and Korean Hanji 100% mulberry papers
  

• Letterpress printed on a Vandercook IV press by Horton Tank Graphics
  

• Blind de-bossed print mounting boards, showing a topography map of the Grand Canyon
  

• Limited to an edition of 20 numbered copies, and lettered copies A–G

  
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