McVarish, Emily: ENTRIES "Entries records a set of formative visual experiences. On its pages, a subject is constructed by the transcendent act of seeing. This subject gradually replaces a figure shaped by the unseen forces of family life. The book’s account links aesthetic episodes through which a point of view develops." 
"Along the way, Entries surveys modes of imagery, both verbal (descriptive and metaphoric) and visual (graphic and photographic, abstract and metonymic). In the form of an illustrated screenplay, text and graphics test scale, angle, plane, stillness, movement, and sequence for their contributions to the assembly of its central character." 
Within the book, textual and visual motifs of tidal pools, typewriters, camera-shot scenes, bedrooms, dream sequences, and San Francisco follow a central character. The page spreads are printed vertically (rotated 90 degrees to the right to clearly read), with several texts performing simultaneously across the pages' layout. The book embodies McVarish's signature approach to bookmaking— detail-oriented technique used in the service of atmospheric storytelling—and weaves a meta-commentary on the mechanisms of letterpress, type, and printing as part of the book's meaning-making.
 en., letterpress, polymer plates, green cloth over stamped boards, 80p, 10.3 x 7.6 inch, Ed. of 35+10, num., sign., New York, 2025, Granary Books Request of availability backnext