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TREES
W. S. Merwin
A stop action animation about the making of Trees has been created as a video on Youtube. See the video.
W. S. Merwin's soft and contemplative poem conveys a sense of quiet awe as he looks into trees from a mysterious time and place. The poem was first published in 1977 shortly after he settled in Hawaii. He now lives on a former pineapple plantation in Haiku, Hawaii, where he has spent years restoring the property and raising endangered palm trees. The plantation has more than 700 palms that he planted, some of them very rare.
Trees has been made as a limited edition of thirty copies in the spring and summer of 2010. The images of palm trees have been made as monotypes that have been reproduced as high-resolution digital prints on transparent film. They are hinged between pages of Strathmore 2-ply museum board and acid free foamcore with architectural model trees. The windows in the foamcore were cut at Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA. The text pages were printed letterpress at JR Press, San Francisco, and the title on the side of the box was foil-stamped by John DeMerritt, Emeryville, California. The typeface is Poppl-Laudatio. Charles Hobson made the monotypes and designed and assembled the edition with the assistance of Alice Shaw.
Limited Edition of 30 copies. 16 pages. 4 1/4 x 12 x 2 inches. Publication Price: $1,750
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THE MAGIC JACKET
The Magic Jacket is a short story based on a concept developed by Sandra and Charles Hobson. In the story a young mother soothes the discomfort of her son who has had a bad day at school, or rather, a series of bad days at school. She tells him about a little girl who, many years before, was also having a bad time at school. In the tale the little girl learns a vital life lesson about self confidence from her encounter with a magic jacket--a jacket her grandfather got for her when he took her to her first big league baseball game.
The images are charcoal and pastel drawings by Charles Hobson and have been printed as high resolution digital prints on an Epson Stylus 2200 printer. The text has been printed in 10-point Ariel Narrow on Coronado SST cover paper. The accordion fold structure was designed by Charles Hobson, who did the binding with Alice Shaw in the fall of 2009.
6-1/2 x 4 3/4 x 1/2 inches. 12 pages. Limited edition of 60 copies. Publication Price: $225
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RITUALS FOR LIFE MILESTONES
For more than twenty years Sandra Hobson has traveled around the world encountering and engaging with indigenous cultures and shamanic traditions. Her travels have taken her to Nepal, Ecuador, Lapland and Tuva (in Siberia), to name a few of her destinations, as well as to Native American sites in the United States. From the travel and lessons learned in these cultures she has created rituals for contemporary life transitions and events.
Fifteen rituals are described in Rituals for Life Milestones which has been published in an edition of 500 copies in the fall of 2009. The rituals are accompanied by photographs of objects used in the ceremonies of the diverse cultures. The text is printed on Finch 100 pound opaque paper and the text pages have been saddle stitched into a cover of black museum board and Strathmore charcoal paper. The title page is printed letterpress on Rives Grey BFK paper. The cover has been die cut with an opening which permits a small stone to be attached to the title page and to show through the cover. The stones have been collected on walks taken by the author over the last several years at Stinson Beach, California.
Edition of 500 copies. Publication Price $75.
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ANCIENT MARINER
Roger Angell, the distinguished senior editor at The New Yorker magazine, is best known outside the magazine for his writings about baseball. However, his memoir "Ancient Mariner" about sailing in Maine displays his ability to use language elegantly and precisely while conveying vivid images of his experiences of more than sixty years.
The essay by Roger Angell has been set in 18 pt Times New Roman, and was printed letterpress on BFK Rives by Les Ferriss in Healdsburg, California. The book is a large format accordion with the pages measuring 15 x 11 inches. It is bound in boards covered with reproductions of the charts used by Roger Angell and is contained in a slipcase covered in canvas to emulate sailcloth. The book is signed in the colophon by the author and the artist.
Edition of 39 copies. Publication Price $2,500.
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EXPERIMENTS IN NAVIGATION
The Art of Charles Hobson
Catalogue published by Stanford University in conjunction with the joint exhibitions at Green Library and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Nine of Charles Hobson's artist's books are the focus of the book, which also includes a checklist of Hobson's book works to date and a chronology of his development as an artist. Hobson's narrative texts describe how he conceived, researched and developed the ideas, artwork and physical structure for each of the featured books. The text is generously illustrated with images from the archive, production photographs and photographs of the finished work.
Text by Charles Hobson. Preface by May Castleberry. Foreword by Roberto Trujillo. Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2008. 64 pages, four-color throughout, die-cut soft cover, sewn binding. Publication Price: $25
Available for purchase from Stanford University until September 1, 2008. Thereafter, available through this website.
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