Good Morning/Buenos Dias/Maidgin Mhaigh
Three handbound books of lino prints, each in an edition of 10
Included in the Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, November 2016

These books are a personal response to the death of my mother at the end of the summer of 2016. The simple ritual of a polite greeting and query have an existential significance. Each book has a corrugated cardboard cover and is handbound using 6 strand cotton embroidery thread. The endpapers and edition page are 100% acid-free rag paper, and the lino prints are printed on heavyweight cold-pressed acid-free Strathmore watercolour paper, 140 lb (300 g/m2). The books are 15 cm x 19 cm x 1 cm (LxWxD). The first and last pages contain a lino-print of text in one of three languages (English, Spanish or Irish). The three image prints are in the following order: egg in cup, two mugs, teapot. The image size for each lino print is 6.2 cm x 7.5 cm.