Genesis addendum : Original syn thesis /
Wightman, Jenifer.
Brooklyn [i.e. New York], NY : Wightman, [Center for Book Arts],
2014.
Addendum is a one page letterpress broadside that updates the story of Genesis in the Gutenberg Bible using scientific images and bibliographic reference.  The first 49 editions are being donated to institutions that hold a Gutenberg Bible in their collection. The project was executed during an artist residency at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. It is a three-color letterpress print on cotton laid paper made by Lee Marchalonis. Addendum was designed in the style and dimension of the 42-line Gutenberg bible and printed in an edition of 180.
Statement by the artist: "While the story of Genesis is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis of creation given the available information, we have learned much since the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press.  The printing press, for me, is the beginning of contemporary science as it was the broad distribution of ideas that led to a true evolution of shared thinking.  This Addendum to the Gutenberg Bible is founded in the tradition of story telling and all the ways language playfully re/considers the world around us".
Gutenberg Bible.
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