C
Published by Catalogue Library, 2013
210 x 180 mm, 12 pp., two-colour risograph print, edition of 50

The third in a series of alphabet-titled books which investigate the form, structure and topology of the book through an algorithmic approach to book design. The position of found images in this book is determined by a set if rules based on the principle of diagonal arrangement. Images are positioned so that consecutive bottom right and top left corners are connected. As images exceed the page's edge, they re‑enter from the top, continuing seamlessly from the right-hand point where they departed. This looping motion creates a corkscrew of imagery, a continuous thread that treats the book not as a sequence of discrete recto and verso pages, but as a single uninterrupted surface folded into signatures. 

This title for this series of books was inspired by Louis Luthi's book, A Die With Twenty-six Faces (ROMA Publications, 2018). Luthi collects books with letters for titles (referred to as alphabet books) such as John Updike's S., Georges Perec's W and Louis Zukofsky's A. The idea stemmed from James Joyce's Ulysses, where the character Stephen Dedalus muses on writing books titled A, B, C etc. 

Published by Catalogue Library.