Tensile
Subtitle: a sublime love story
Contributors: DeMarais, Alyce, collaborator; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Collins Memorial Library; Science stories (Exhibition) (2021 : Tacoma, WA)
Publisher: Springtide Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Tacoma, WA
Language: eng
Subjects: Bisphenols; Water; Pollution; Plastics; Environmental aspects
Description: "Tensile: A sublime love story weaves together a 19th-century poem of seduction by Percy Bysshe Shelley, with current research on bisphenol contamination in our environment, food, water, and bodies."--Exhibit website.
Notes: Limited edition of 35, signed and numbered by the artist.

Title from title page; statements of responsibility from colophon at back of book.

"Including Love's Philosophy, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, & Bisphenol data compiled by Professor Alyce DeMarias, 2017-21"--Title page.

Created in collaboration with Alyce DeMarais for Science Stories : a Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists, an exhibit running from October 15, 2021 to January 14, 2022 at Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound.

Letterpress printed with plastic materials related to food consumption (straws, bottle caps, bag enclosures, produce netting, clingwrap) and metal type on Rite in the Rain Paper (which repels water), and Neenah Plike ("plastic-like") with Plexiglas boards.  The books structure is Leporello.

Rare Book copy: No. 4

Includes bibliographical references.