Campbell, Ken: In the Door stands a Jar
On each page is another, smaller two-page spread printed on a black background. In each smaller spread is what is left after I have printed black solids as a window over and around the female forms. Black over colour gives ghostly images of the complete form. The poem runs laterally through the colour and bleeds off into the darkness on either side. There are very large dark borders. I had started to play with borders both as ways of containing the work in a field and as a dark space at the edge of things; a free-fire zone in which things seen in other parts of the book and things remembered can affect that which stands in the light.
en., polychrome letterpress, metallic dusting and handwork, printed slipcase, 44p, 9 x 9 inch, Ed. of 40, num., sign., London, 1987
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