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Three more double-page spreads of an ominously darkening sea display the translator’s and designer’s names and the copyright page printed in reverse.Īnd then the poem begins. The words in all caps Helvetica type bounce across the pages like dice, or rise and fall like waves. Jeff Clark has designed this book for a dramatic entrance: eleven double-page spreads presenting in large type the English title (interrupted with a full-bleed double-page spread of random-light burst-mode photographs of black-and-white laserprints) followed by Mallarmé’s name in equally large type. Hardback, H280 x W192 mm, 96 pages, illustrations. The fusion of title, metaphor, narrative, image, technique of silk-screening, letterpress, texture of paper and wood, the workings of the accordion and box enclosure - all - with one another makes Unfolding Architecture as satisfying as the Man-Moth’s tear.Ī Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance/Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard (2015)Ī Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (2015) … However, if you watch, he’ll hand it over,Ĭool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink. The Man-Moth and Gordon share a surreality and a hope that resides in the imagination - that solitary tear, the man-moth’s only possession, that slipping from his eyelid, he will palm and swallow if you’re not watching … The newspaper reminds me of the newsprint typo “manmoth” for “mammoth” that inspired Elizabeth Bishop to invent her poem “ The Man-Moth”. It is a reminder that comes to him in his recognition that, in the end, “all he was able to do now was to contribute to the re-making” of his flattened world. Gordon’s story ends with paper - an old, rolled up newspaper that reminds him of a tower (an image that appears on the colophon’s cover slip). Depth and varying texture repeat themselves in the accordion’s folds and paper attached to wooden covers that seem light as paper. The silk-screening adds texture and a just perceptible raised depth to the varying textures of the wood and the Canson Opalux slip that protects the colophon in the bottom of the box. As Gordon asserts, unfolding is not the same as falling apart, and the artist’s book suggests that hope and potential may be achieved through the dismantling of existing structures.

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Yet, … the act of unfolding also produces “an open plain full of possibility” ( Speed 2019). Housed in a balsa wood box that, somewhat alarmingly, unfolds upon opening, the fragility of the folded sheet provokes something of the protagonist’s anxiety about the undoing of his city. The diversity of experience enabled by the fold is made explicit in Speed’s Unfolding Architecture (2007) …, an accordion-folded book that recounts the tale of Gordon, a city dweller who witnesses the collapse of public buildings and, ultimately, his own home as the urban fabric begins to unfold around him.