In Search of Paradise - Night Vision

Edition CopiesExhibitions

Artist's Proof No.1, 1987 is bound in codex form with foldout pages of various lengths. Covered in black Oasis goatskin and green Japanese paper. 1988-90
The Art of the Book,
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild exhibition (touring).

Artist's Proof No.2, 1987 is a boxed folio of unbound sheets. 1987
On legal deposit, the rare book collection of the National Library of Canada, Ottawa.

Copy No. 1, 1987
is in the form of a scroll with wooden handles with a simple tray container and leather covering flap.
1987
Purchased for the rare book collection of the National Library of Canada, Ottawa.

1989
Artists in Books - Made in Canada VI,
National Library of Canada, Ottawa.

Copy No. 2, 1989
is in the form of a scroll with wooden handles set into a folding sculptural container. The scroll page is protected by a plexiglas cover and the handles are exposed for viewer manipulation. Hidden in the interior is a cassette tape-player with speakers to play the ambient soundtrack which accompanies the images.
1989
Artware: Artists' Bookworks, A Space, Toronto.

15th Anniversary Exhibit, Centre for Book Arts, New York.

1993
The Open Book?, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.

Le Regard Renversant,
Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Occurence, Montréal, Québec (3-person).

1994
Arts Ex Libris, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.

Interiors/Texteriors, Buffalo Arts Studio Gallery, Buffalo, NY (3-person).

The Book as Art, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario.

1995
Purchased for the Allan Chasanoff Collection, NYC.

Copy No. 3, 1991
is a sewn codex similar to Copy Number 4. The binding is in dark green and black Oasis goatskin.

Copy No. 4, 1991
is a sewn codex with foldout pages of various lengths. The back cover is constructed to house a copy of the soundtrack cassette. The binding is in dark green and grey Oasis goatskin with silver leafing and tooled titles.
1992
American Book Arts, Istvan Kiraly Muzeum, Budapest.

1993
Le Regard Renversant,
Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Occurence, Montréal, Québec (3-person).

1994
Interiors/Texteriors, Buffalo Arts Studio Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Copy No. 5, 1993
is a folded accordion housed in a walnut display rack. Hung on moveable wire rods, the pages can be shifted by reaching past the sharp glass edge of the display.
1993
The Open Book?, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.

Le Regard Renversant,
Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Occurence, Montréal, Québec.

1994
Interiors/Texteriors, Buffalo Arts Studio Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Copy No. 6, 1993
is a folded accordion sewn into hard covers of black silk. The sewing is a packed "caterpillar-style" in white silk. The binding fans open into a full standing circle.
1993
Le Regard Renversant,
Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Occurence, Montréal, Québec.

1994
Interiors/Texteriors, Buffalo Arts Studio Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Early 1990s was on consignment with Toni Zwicker in NYC.

Copy No. 7, 2005
is a scroll format on wooden handles.

Copy No. 8, 2005
is a digital scroll book displayed on a computer. The reader is given control via scroll bar to view the contents which are accompanied by the soundtrack. The book may also be set to loop continuously. This work physically consists of a CdROM which the purchaser may install as desired, although preference is for a contemporary, white Apple iMac G5 with its resemblance to a stone tablet or stela.
January 2006
On display at the Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto