BY WESLEY STRINGER, DONE IN CONCERT WITH POET, LAUREN ISABEAU.

Named and imagined after April Aubade — a poem by Sylvia Plath in her 1955 manuscript book collection, Circus In Three Rings — the pieces reflect on and exist in dawn (or dusk), one of those two ‘shoulder times’ in which it is neither full day nor complete night. The figure in the three photographs inhabits this sort of watercolor mood-ed world, and chooses to emulate one of those wakened “dreamers in the milky dawn... before that papal paragon, the sun.” Subtle scintillations within the photographs rise up from the poem’s line “where diamonds jangle hymns within the blood.”

Comprised of 3 artistic borderline poses of the poet in various stages of temporal and spatial study by the photographer. Each of the 3 unique prints is situated above an original one-of-a-kind handwritten cursive poem, done in the poet’s own hand — thus rendering each print entirely inimitable, even from its other fellow editions. The 3 poems are image-specific, with each one having drawn its language after the movements and form within the photograph.

• Limited to 3 handmade-and-numbered editions, + 2 AP's

• Each print measures 15 x 22 ¼”

• Images printed on handmade natural-tone Gampi Paper, poems handwritten on cotton-based tracing paper

• 3 typed translations of the 3 poems included, printed on the same cotton-based tracing paper and enclosed within individual glassine envelopes (5 x 7”)

• Clamshell box portfolio (22 ½ x 16 x 3 ¾”) constructed from Davey and Rising Museum Board, wrapped in a canvassed silk-wool blend with archival adhesives.

• Each box is bound with its own individual-color classic grosgrain ribbon in olive-cream-brown palettes and hand signed by both artists.

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