Dirge. Letterpress and oil monoprint on paper. Coptic bound, blank pages of various art papers, roughly torn into varying sizes. Unique. Canberra: Ampersand Duck, 2005. Price on application.

Made in front of the tv from all the off-cuts of paper I found in my paper drawer and recycling a couple of letterpress prints for the cover, this book has probably been exhibited more than any of my others.

The cover prints started life as oil-on-paper monoprints with solvent transfer text as a student project, and then were given a second life for a political printmakers group show curated by Lawrence Finn, and the proof prints were given a third life as this cover.

The binding is Coptic-sewn, which means it is an open-spine book with the stitching exposed. Each pair of stitching chains is one thread with a needle at each end. It's a bit like knitting, or macrame. The thread is brown waxed linen. The button is vintage.