Innovative Formats > Time Samples
Alison Knowles's Time Samples is composed of a series of 6¼-inch squares of material gathered from the artist’s studio onto which the artist printed items such as spoons and nails using sun-printing and other image transfer techniques. The text, “Writing Red,” is a written performance of the 1962 Fluxus event score: “Celebration Red: Celebrate every red thing.”
The ingenious modified accordion structure was designed and produced by Katherine Kuehn. It allows Time Samples to operate as a book while also offering the possibility of unfolding it and hanging it on the wall so that all of the samples are visible. Typography by Anne Noonan and Steve Clay; printed at Soho Letterpress; bound by Judith Ivry in an edition of 45.