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DEGAS IN ROME
Degas in Rome is a fictional diary of Edgar D使as coveringﾊ a week in Rome in 1857. D使as was then only twenty-three years old and had traveled to Italy to immerse himself in its culture and artistic traditions. The diary contains imaginary entries and drawings by Charles Hobson in which a beautiful woman escorts D使as to the Cityﾕs masterpieces and opens his eyes to the lessons they hold. As an old man D使as said, speaking of his time in Rome, "It was the most extraordinary period of my life."
D使as in Rome has been made as a limited edition of 34 copies in the last months of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. Five independent signatures have been sewn into an 11 x 15" accordion of BFK Rives paper. Each signature has a page-edge design from an actual D使as sketchbook. Original drawings in the style of D使as have been made by Charles Hobson with pencil on stained or acrylic washed paper and reproduced as high resolution digital prints that have been accented with handwork in many instances. The maps used are from the Nolli Map of 1748 by Giambattista Nolli and would have been available to D使as as he traveled about the City in 1857.
33 pages, plus 5 inserted cards. 12 x 8.5 x 2 inches.ﾊﾊ
Publication Price: $2,100
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QUARANTINE
Eavan Boland
A stop action animation about the making of Quarantine has been created as a video on Youtube. See the video.
Eavan Boland's moving poem is a stark and severe depiction of the deep relationship between a man and a woman that transends the traditions of love poetry. The imagery and design of the book have been inspired by the bleak winter landscape of snow and frozen trees and by the practice of grafting.
Quarantine has been made as a limited edition accordion book in an edition of forty-two copies in the spring and summer of 2011. The images are monotypes of bundled twigs that have been printed as high-resolution digital prints with additional pastel finishing. The text is 12 point Palatino and has been printed letterpress by JR Press, San Francisco, on BFK Rives. The box was cut on a Gunnar 3001 Cutter at Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California and the covers have been editioned by John DeMerritt in Emeryville, California. The book design and images are by Charles Hobson who assembled the book and the boxes with the assistance of Alice Shaw.
18 pages. 9 x 6.5 x 2.25 inches.
Publication Price: $1,750
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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. Sold out.
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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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