BY LAUREN ISABEAU

Drawn after Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1876 study, Torse, effet de soleil, this inaugural booklet in the ongoing One-poem booklet series meditates on the premise of molding the female body mass: at first visually, by simple means of sun as it falls on and crosses both skin and fabric alike, and then poetically through prehensile language which touches on and evocatively reimagines sensory experience of color, form, and gaze itself. That there does exist, for example, both sassafras and sage within common skin as it communes with and is steeped in such light and then dark values — no better canvas presents itself as simple shelter for how these seeming dissonances can soundly harmonize than the overarching nude.

The handwritten poem, which threads together the four film photographs, has been orchestrated into four stanzas: each one written atop its corresponding image and then translated through typeface on a card-insert which rests on the opposing page. Each stanza of the poem remains entirely image-specific, with each one having drawn its language after the movements and form within its analogous photograph.

• Limited to 18 handmade-and-number editions, +2 AP’s

• Each booklet measures 7 x 10”, printed-card inserts measure 4 x 5”

• Both images and typed stanzas printed on archival matte photo paper

• Dust jacket, constructed from Arches watercolor paper, folded around 5 accordion-bound pages

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