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About the Linens

Joan M.  Soppe

Handmade linen paper, letterpress, etching, found objects, coptic and dos-a-dos binding.
letterpress, etching printing
dos-a-dos binding
5 1/2 x 4 x 1 1/2 in
edition of 10

I use the book form to take a viewer through a sequence of images. The book medium lends itself to being opened, pages being turned, and ideas stripped and laid bare as the layers are peeled back.

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