marking temporary
marking temporary
August 2024 A quiet meditation on the momentary experience of time and its illusory nature, marking temporary offers a minimalist approach for contemplating states of being, and how these states can shift as we refocus our attention. The book invites a playful openness as attention shifts between vast open space, organically gradated color fields, and sparse text.
By Robin Price in collaboration with Jolene Leuchten, press intern 2021, marking temporary emerged from spontaneous exploratory practices together, often in long periods of silence, and is informed by Buddhism, kundalini yoga, and living in the shadow of environmental collapse.
The tall and thin hybrid accordion book, housed in a celadon cloth-covered box by Lisa Hersey, is printed letterpress in eleven colors, including five gradation fields. The primary ink color, used for the 10 pt Fortune extra bold type, matches the pale book cloth. The box opening reveals a suggested portal, handwritten in silver pen. With Johannot paper, and warm grey museum board covers.
16 x 6 inches; 13 pp; edition of 50* with five APs; 2024
*Numbers 43, 47, and 49 are uniquely altered, $1800 each. (#43 is no longer available)
*Number 50 is a prototype that shows trials for two different hand-marking/writing sequences that were not adopted for the edition. $2000.
Pictured here: prototype made from rejected edition sheets