“Hand-cut Fabriano Pittura paper. Digitally printed. Floral doodles by hand. Housed in lidded box with title on cover. Numbered on title label.” “Plants can make their own food. Plants can live without people. As you turn the pages of this artist’s book you may be reminded of unfurling petals or leaves. The book when wide open looks like a flower – or a sun. Is there a connection? Yes, plants have been using energy from the sun to make food from CO2 and H2O for millions of years. The structure of the book is based on a vegetable steamer, which completes the cycle – plants make the food, we eat the plants.”–Artist’s statement from Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.
Cover title. Edition of 50. Book object issued in handmade box (17 x 17 x 4 cm). SMFA copy numbere 23 on one of the “petals”, and again on the box lid.