JOAN LYONS

2004, 60 pgs, 7.25 x 5.25" printed on an Indigo Digital Press;
Hardbound, quarter cloth and rag paper;  Numbered edition of 50

Every bookmaker and student of typography thinks about making an alphabet book at some time. Here is mine from a culture in thrall to all things visual. To one who does not read Spanish, this is a pure explosion of the materiality of language without much reference to its meaning. The written word reduced to basics—the letter. This was fun, because the sequence is given—A-Z but I had a fine time playing loose with the left-hand pages.