Hand lettered parchment pages are glued onto pages of rag paper with feathered edges. The illustrated pages are collograph prints bound together using a dowel hinge spine technique. Book case is a modified folio box that is also dowel hinged and covered with a reflective material. On the front cover is attached a hand painted collograph plate.
“Exposed spine, pages are hinged with stainless steel rods. The cover has a lip on three sides so the book closes like a box. The cover is auto aluminum paper tape over binders board. On top of this, is one of the plates that the collographs were printed from. The plates were made from museum board and recycled materials to create the car masks. The cars are: Fiat, Packard, Tucker, Cord, Jaguar, Chrysler, Peugeot, and Corvette. The back cover is board with an 1/8″ board strip down the right side, painted black. The end sheets are Ingres dark gray. Each car image has its name written on Lucene marble before it’s print. The collographs are collaged and printed with blue/black ink on Gallery Gray. The plates were produced in 1991, first proofs were pulled on bagasse paper. Inked in 1992 and printed on Rives BFK. Materials were put away until 1994, and then reprinted on Gallery Gray, and finally bound in 1995.” (M. McCarthy)
“Edition of six.”
MCA: McCarthy, Mary, alumna.