Barbara A Morton

reductus

Morton, Barbara A., St Andrews: Entropie Books, 2024

978-1-913658-19-9

Unique Book. 226 x 226 x 34 mm.

Clothbound, shadow-box style, having three rows of bookshelf to present ten elements of reductus. Cloth-bound lid having clear glass viewing aperture. 1. Haiku on handmade paper mounted on maroon cloth board 32 x 42 mm signed. 2. Volume I 32 x 42 mm closed, 88 x 134, unfolded. Single sheet of the author’s handmade paper origami-folded to 8 pages, including covers, having series of three line- drawings and three annotated equations on grid[1]line paper. Text, on reverse, revealed upon unfolding. Title and colophon printed on shoji. Signed and dated. 3. From: reductus I, 32 x 42 line-drawing on handmade paper mounted on screen-print background. 3 Signed. 4. Haiku on handmade paper mounted on screen-print background. 32 x 42 mm. Signed. 5. Volume II ~ 32 x 42 mm, 400 x 44 extended, having a series of ten line-drawings on one side, single drawing on reverse. Maroon cloth-bound boards with grey grosgrain ribbon fastening. Title and colophon printed on shoji. Signed and dated. 6. Three-part origami box constructed from the author's handmade paper, and having line drawings, to contain a series of individually folded haiku printed on shoji 22 x 22 x10 mm. Signed and dated. 7. Three-part origami box, grid-lined paper. 22 x 22 x10 mm. Signed and dated. 8. Line-drawing on handmade paper before screen-print background, mounted on maroon cloth bound board 32 x 42 mm. Signed and dated. 9. 32 x 42 mm. From: reductus I, line-drawing on handmade paper mounted on screen-print background. Signed and dated. 10. Series of eight haiku printed on the author's handmade paper, bound Japanese style using white linen threads. Shoji title and colophon. Screen print covers. 42 x 32 mm. Signed and dated.