Loops of hidden string

The books lining up, neatly sewed and folded, waiting to be glued into their covers.



The infamous wax seal, keeping the contents of the book held in secret.

Printing Museum

Photos taken by Karen Mezentef, on our excursion to the Melbourne Printing Museum in Footscray. We produced the title page for Volume One of the Signal Periodical with the letter press method at the museum, it took five hours to print nine words on a page two hundred times. See the book for the full story and to feel the imprint of the metal letters on the paper.

Preview two

Photograph and diagram by Pablo Alvarado



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and if i
could, is
sue,
from my lip
s (tempt
them not, my fickle
facebuds) a word,
a sound (so
journed; rest
ing on the bench
es of my whites), i
t would be (crystal
line, resonant, life-
changing, erra
tic,
hush
ed, sus
urr
ate
d, in
explic
able, violent,) soft (ever
-changing-
meaning, ever
-staying-
the-same) like you
r fingers (which
are more
than fing
ers) danc
in
g alon
g the in
c
line o
f m
y j
aw

(when you
call me
y
our sweet, an
d i forge
t i am not
honey);
it wo
uld no
t be some
thing
un
lik
e lo
ve

by Karen Mezentsef