Typography > Oaths? Questions?
Artist James Siena described his desire to collaborate with poet Marjorie Welish on this project in the following terms: “To make a Book in all its Bookness, sequential, teleological, inevitable. As well as strange, of course. To tell the story of a making of something, to undo it, page by page. So this book takes us apart and puts us back together again, none the worse for wear, but certainly not the same as before. And the words offer hints to the truth (oaths) and doubts about them as well (questions). Their very transparency evidences the debt they owe to the wordless visual.”
The unusual printing and structure of this project demanded many collaborators. The book’s images were printed by Ruth Lingen. The typographic layout, by Marjorie Welish and James Siena, was printed letterpress by Art Larson at Horton Tank Graphics. The binding structure was designed by Daniel E. Kelm and Kylin Lee at the Wide Awake Garage and produced by Kylin Lee at the Blue Eyed Cicada Studio in an edition of 50.