The color system
Subtitle: schemes for life enhancement
Contributors: Stone, Bianca; Martin, Nelle, printer; Jones, Sonja, binder; Stone, Bianca; Brighton Press; Evidence of the Hand; BFK Rives (Firm); Cave Paper (Firm)
Publisher: Brighton Press; & Evidence of the Hand
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [San Diego, California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Color in art; Artists' books; Specimens; American poetry
Notes: "The color system : schemes for life enhancement (or Because I love you I can come apart) was conceived by artist Jenny Hoshida Park, who composed the color names and systems and created 107 unique colors in response to thirteen found, vintage photographs. It is framed as a book of color swatches one might find at a paint or interior design shop, where each color name evokes paradisical vacations or quaint Americana. Poet Bianca Stone was then invited to collaborate, which led to the interruption of the pages with the rough draft of her poem, "Because I love you I can come apart" and prose poems in the form of endnotes responding to each of Yoshida Park's color systems. The color swatches were cut from hand painted paste papers. The photographs were digitally altered and printed with archival pigment inks on Red River Polar Gloss Metallic paper. Text was set in Futura and Adobe Jenson and printed letterpress by Nelle Martin on Rives BFK. Poem excerpts were typed on a 1947 Remington Noiseless Model 7 typewriter onto hand ruled strips of translucent Cave paper. Sonja Jones bound the books in Maharam cloth and made the enclosures. ... copublished by Brighton Press and Evidence of the Hand, in a limited edition of 45 signed and numbered copies with four additional artist's proofs, in 2019."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 26; signed by the artist and the poet