RIVER REVEAL

An Observation of a Site

Once Lived and Worked Upon

Demolished, Abandoned, Remnants

Buried by Weeds, Trees and Alluvium

Exhumed by Water and Erosion

Trees Felled by Winds 

and the Wake of Boats

Upon the Mississippi River.

Revisited from time to time

as the seasons changed.

2005 - 2007 

River:    the Mississippi

Reveal:  to make known, disclose, divulge: to reveal a secret; to lay open to view;  an act or instance of revealing; revelation; disclosure.

Reveal:   the part of the jamb of a window or door; opening between the outer wall surface and the window of a door frame; the whole; jamb of an opening between the outer and inner surfaces of a wall.

COLOPHON

RIVER REVEAL was produced in a variable edition of 5. Photogravures are printed on Johannot 240 paper with Charbonnel soft black ink. Portfolio, box and text pages are Canapetta linen, Cave Paper handmade black flax and overbeaten flax vellum. The text pages are letterpress printed in Centaur. The materiality of this work is a gift to the makers’ and readers’ senses in a time when so much is senseless.  –PMR  2007