Production Narrative

by P. Zimmermann

The edition included hard-slipcased archival inkjet paper copies and paper-slipcased Tintoretto paper copies. The cost and time of doing the entire edition in archival inkjet was prohibitive. All the production was the same, otherwise, except that the HP Indigo version required CMYK images imposed for 12" x 18" sheets. The inkjet version was done on 17" x 22" inkjet paper and used RGB versions of all the image files.

Critical Analysis

by P.Zimmermann

Design Features

typographic: Photina was chosen for its simplicity and legibility. It is elegant but does not call attention to itself.

imagery: Careful attention placed on the counterpoint between warm and cool colors and the cold Northeastern images and the warm Southwestern images.

graphical: Much thought was given to the ways the text could be placed on the page and remain legible yet relatively unobtrusive. The text is critical to the book but I wanted it to be seamlessly integrated into the images so that one requires and emotionally reflects the other, but does not distract.

turnings: The spine structure that ties the book together is reflected in the text and is autobiographical.

development: The images, many sequential, almost cinematic, move the reader through the book, closely tied with the despairing tone of the text.

Critical Discussion

This is my personal story, the damage was mine, but I think it is fairly universal, collective, shared.

Nature Abhors

Agents

Philip Zimmermann

type: initiating

role:
artist
author
publisher
printer

nationality:
born: Bangkok, Thailand
active: United States
citizenship: United States

dates:
birth: 1951-01-24

Publication Information

edition type: editioned

publisher: Spaceheater Editions

place: Rhinebeck, NY

dates:
conception: 2003-05-00 Conceived and written in spring 2003, production continued past the Love and Terror show into late October 2003. Binding continues through 2006 as need arises.
production: 2003-09-00

edition size: 25 in Pigmented Archival Inkjet Edition, signed and numbered with a hardcover slipcase. 150 in HP Indigo digital ink Edition on Tintoretto paper, signed and numbered with a softcover slipcase. Digital photographs, x-ray photo, digitized image from an 18th century anatomy book, Adobe InDesign, 'Photina' font, Epson 2200 Ultrachrome printer. At Rhinebeck NY and BAR in La Union NM. Limited edition includes 25 copies on Mitsubishi Diamond-Jet Pro dual-sided matte paper, with hard cover slipcase; and then another 150 copies in larger HP Indigo edition on Tintoretto paper, with folded wrappers to cover. Text, images, design, production all by the author with the exception of photo on page 6.

Measurements

horizontal: 5.5 inches closed

vertical: 5.5 inches closed

depth: .75 inches closed

Production Information

production means:
inkjet (AAT)

binding: special (local) The binding is what Claire Van Vliet calls a “woven accordion-fold book”. It can be viewed as either a codex book, or the spine tab at the rear of the book can be untucked and the book stretched out as a modified accordian fold. 25 are in inkjet edition with binding-board hard slipcase, 150 in HP Indigo edition have with paper slipcase, made of the same Tintoretto paper as the book itself.

substrate:
bookBlock: paper Rives

media:
ink (local) HP Indigo on edition of 150; Epson Ultrachrome pigmented inkjet ink on edition of 25.

other materials: All books come with a custom made protective box made from archival gray corrugated board

Appearance

format: codex (AAT) concertina (AAT)

cover: The front cover, 5.5" x 5.5", contains a photo of a desert settlement. On a portion of the cover, a shaped piece of the beginning of the spine structure is glued, with a water image and a screened-back square area, with the words NATURE ABHORS in black type.

color: yes Full color photo images on the front and back covers, which are also the first and last pages of the book, and on soft and hard cover slipcases.

Content

pagination: unpaginated 34 pages

numbered?: numbered

signed?: signed

Colophon

On slipcase: "Two editions of this book are available, one in archival UltraChrome inkjet in an edition of 25, the other in HP Indigo Digital output, in an edition of 150. Published by Spaceheater Editions, Rhinebeck NY and produced at the Border Art Residence, in beautiful La Union, New Mexico. The structure of the book is based on a model developed by Claire Van Vliet from a form originally created by Hedi Kyle. Photograph on P.6 by Elizabeth Alderman. Copyright ©2003 Philip Zimmermann". On the inside of the spine tab, on the book itself, it says "For Zizi" the edition number, and then "Nature Abhors, Philip Zimmermann, Spaceheater Editions, Rhinebeck, NY 12572" and signed below by the author .

Exhibition Information

exhibition history: "Love and Terror" exhibition at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Fall 2003, was the first time this was exhibited. It has been exhibited in about 6 shows since then, two more shortly in Winter and Spring of 2006 in San Francisco and Pelham NY.