Description:Q5829

A black hardback book, cloth bound, rectangular (landscape orientation) approx 26 x 21.5 cm. The book is covered with a fairly fine weave canvas (or coarse weave cotton) with the title "Without" impressed into the cover, and into the spine, along with the artist's name. Inside, the book is held together with shiny brass screws, the pages are white and plain except for the identical maple leaf design cut out of the centre of each one, leaving a deep hole through the book. They are also perforated along the inside edge. The material is quite textured but feels quite soft to touch, the screws are cold and hard and the pages are smooth (apart from the edges of the cut-outs which are sharp). Open the book, turn pages carefully (though they are all the same, or tear off a sheet at a time along the perforations.) The sharp edges of the cut outs, which would be ruined by too much handling. The contrast between the white pages and the black of the covers and leaf cut-out.

These material descriptions of the Artists’ Book Collection were written during a volunteer placement at the Women’s Art Library in 2009 when Charlotte was a student at LCC on the Book Arts programme (which no longer exists).