Ruth Ellen Ruston.
No Place of Publication: No Publisher, No Date.
Staple-bound softcover.
20 pages including covers.
Very good.
Minor wear and toning to covers. Page 13 has an unobtrusive closed tear that is easy to mistake for a crease.
No information on artist, publisher, place of publication, date is given in this artists' book. Printed Matter's website states the author is Ruth Ellon Ruston and that the title is Carnal Unions / Love Stories 1. OCLC gives a possible place of publication as Nova Scotia, Halifax and date of publication as 1981.
"Printed alternately in black and white and super saturated green, the images in this book are a meditation on absence and the passage of time. The initial word sequence, “my hand, your wrist, this page, our absence,” sets the book up as a site for the reenactment of a memory, and the reader as a stand in for a specific person who seems to be being addressed by both the words and images. In a convenience store, a National Enquirer headline reads “You’ll Live Past 100!” After this, a blurry spread is followed by images of a wedding ceremony that get closer and more abstract as the camera zooms in."
- Printed Matter
OCLC lists three holdings: Concordia University Library, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
