Alice Austin Artist Books. Alice Austin. 1024 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA. Website: http://amaustin.com.
Alice Austin. Blanket Bog. 2023. 5 pages. 130 x 155 mm. Garamond on Mohawk Superfine with 8 hand-cut linoleum prints, three of which are reduction prints in multiple colors, by Austin. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 25 copies of a five-panel tunnel book, constructed and bound by Austin, price: $700. Evokes a drive through the blanket bog along the west coast of Ireland in County Mayo. A herd of sheep stops the car and the viewer contemplates the hillside, with piles of peat, cut and stacked to dry. Printed from hand-cut linoleum prints, the side panels take the viewer along the road from farmland into the bog. The last panel is a five-color reduction linoleum print of the landscape. The back of the tunnel book has a poem written by the artist about the blanket bog.