Woolgathering | Patti Smith | Christian Marclay
Woolgathering | Patti Smith | Christian Marclay
An artist book by Patti Smith
featuring thirteen photograms by Christian Marclay
and with a new foreword and unpublished “porch song” by the author
Signed by the author and the artist
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Woolgathering is a collaboration between two contemporary creative masters: author and singer-songwriter Patti Smith and visual and sound artist Christian Marclay. Smith’s first published prose work, written thirty years ago, is an incantatory memoir of the creative process and its wellspring in the world of childhood. Employing a variety of sound ephemera, acrylic LPs, and organic materials, Marclay’s crystalline constructions provide a parallel visual score that reflects and refracts the rhythms of Smith’s verses and tales. The Arion Press edition of Woolgathering uniquely captures their artistic kinship.
“The New World” Print and Broadside
Deluxe copies of Woolgathering are accompanied by a gravure of an original manuscript poem by Patti Smith set in her expressive, chancery-style hand. The prints are chine collé on 290 gsm vintage Tiepolo, 17h x 14w inches, and are signed by the poet. A typescript transcription of the poem is included with both the print and the broadside.
A letterpress broadside of “The New World” is offered as a separate purchase, here.
Production Details
Limited Edition of 250 numbered copies for sale
Deluxe Edition of 50 numbered copies for saleQuarto format, 10-⅜ x 8 inches, 64 pages with 13 unnumbered leaves for the artwork
Printed by letterpress on mouldmade 125 gsm Zerkall book laid from metal types cast onsite
Bound in full pale blue cloth imprinted with a color gradient and foil stamped titling
Sewn by hand with linen thread over linen tapes
Limited Edition presented in handmade slipcases silkscreened with a botanical motif on the side panels
Deluxe Edition with hand sewn silk headbands and sheep vellum spines blind-stamped with titling, presented in translucent acrylic slipcases etched front and back with the botanical motif
Deluxe Edition includes “The New World” gravure with chine collé , an original poem lettered by Patti Smith, 17h x 14w inches on vintage Tiepolo
Arion Press publication # 122, 2022
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