Electric Fire from the Clouds
Electric Fire from the Clouds
A Collaboration between Ray Nichols & Martha Carothers
ELECTRIC FIRE FROM THE CLOUDS, an artists book collaboration between Martha Carothers of The Post Press and Ray Nichols of Lead Graffiti, pays homage to Ben Franklin's discovery of electricity in 1752. The text pages are printed slowly & patiently via letterpress on "ink pulls"—sheets of paper pulled through the inking rollers on Lead Graffiti's Vandercook Universal III. The text was linecast on an Intertype C4 and then positioned relative to the pulled image on each sheet. Therefore, no two pages in any two books look alike because of the changing background and the placement of the type. To purchase this book, you will first be required to select the 10 ink pulls upon which your copy of the complete text will then be printed, hand bound, and shipped to you.
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production details (below)
Production details
ELECTRIC FIRE FROM THE CLOUDS is available for purchase for $1,200 in our Lead Graffiti store online.
Edition : 40 books intended, numbered and signed by Martha Carothers and Ray Nichols, printed in 2017 to the present. Typically we have up to 5 books at any time
Size : 26 pages, 8.5" x 17"
Binding : Bound by hand in a flutter book format with glued foredges
covered with a sliding slipcover construction in French 140# Speckletone Black with letterpress-printed covers and spine
main text pages are French 140# Speckletone Black illustrated edge-to-edge with opaque white ink pulls
includes title, preface, and colophon pages
Production :
cover, title page, and main text set on an Intertype C4 in hot metal Franklin Gothic Condensed 24 point, with digital photopolymer plates for preface and colophon set in Founder's Caslon
printed slowly & patiently via letterpress in 2 passes on a Vandercook Universal III
Purchasing details
We typically have up to 5 of the books made. If you are interested in reviewing them you can ask for sample photos from each book or trust us with our favorite of those available. Our plan is to post each book as a separate item with at least several sample images from each book.