The launch of The Night Hunter and How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic in the United States was a double-bill of Arctic-themed events hosted by The New York Center for Book Arts and Florisity (see pictures below).
Between the festivities I saw a solo exhibition of sculptures by Peter Schell, one half of the creative team behind The Night Hunter. The purity of these forms reminds me of layers of glacial ice, although they were begun long before our Greenlandic collaboration.
Emily Martin was also in the city celebrating her solo exhibit Theme and Variation at The Center for Book Arts. We made cookies to serve at the private view iced with her trademark stick figures from the 'Crime and Romance' series. Emily's show continues until 3 December. It would be criminal to miss it.
Theme and Variation at The New York Center for Book Arts
Emily Martin working with icing bag
Emily Martin's work also features in the exhibition The Book As Memorial: Book Artists Respond To and Remember 9/11 at the Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University. The library has also added both The Night Hunter and How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic to its collections.
Thanks are due to the New York Room With A View establishment by the waterfront on Staten Island, which provided a place to sleep in between all these activities.
The Night Hunter:
Book Arts Lounge at The New York Center for Book Arts
7th October 2011
Roni Gross (proprietor of Z'roah Press) demonstrates how to print on the Vandercook
Participants take turns to print flashcards with words from How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic.
On the left, bookbinder Ana Cordeiro, who made the box that houses the deluxe edition of The Night Hunter, welcomes me back to The Center for Book Arts after a three-year absence. It was good to find Natalie McGrorty (in purple) in town too.
Reception and Book Launch at Florisity
16th October 2011
The Night Hunter
Roni Gross's flower arrangements referenced polar themes
How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic
Thanks to Sarah Nicholls, Roni Gross and Emily Martin for the photographs used in this post.
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