wild anemone

Letterpress, monoprints, pressure printing
Machine made and handmade paper
wild anemone is a series of poems by Amanda Deutch, inspired by wildflowers, plants, and trees in her Brooklyn neighborhood. Included are inserts of handmade paper made from locally foraged and cultivated paper fiber, dyed with both foraged natural and synthetic pigments.

Plants are everywhere in NYC if you know where to look. Growing out of cracks in the sidewalk, out of the sides of buildings, on medians, between subway tracks. The lines between manmade and natural are blurry. This book is a celebration of the native, the invasive, and the naturalized wildflowers of New York.

wild anemone was designed and printed letterpress by Sarah Nicholls on French Construction paper in whitewash, using pressure printing, mono printing, polymer plates, and metal type. Also included are handmade sheets of paper made from foraged garlic mustard, dandelion, burdock, hosta, Japanese knotweed, milkweed, Queen Anne’s lace, and cattails, all gathered in NYC, as well as more traditional cultivated paper making fibers like cotton, hemp, abaca and flax. Handmade sheets were pigmented with both synthetic color and foraged color, including natural pigments like jewelweed, madder, and goldenrod, and pulled by Sarah Nicholls in her kitchen in The Bronx. Bound in boards by Sarah Nicholls with assistance from Amanda Deutch. Printed at the Center for Book Arts in NYC.

6” x 15”; edition of 40; $750. Contact me for ordering details.