FROM COLORADO TO THE KARAKORAM
Avalanche Safety: Book II, Chapter 1
Avalanche Safety is a series of books following the story
of Stella Wilder exploring how to navigate risk and uncertainty in unstable, overwhelming times.
This book is the second in the Avalanche Safety Series. It begins on a cliff. After surviving the avalanche that buried her friend, Stella wrestles with her past as she considers joining an expedition to the Himalaya. How does she trust herself to venture again into wild terrain?
Stella leaves her small town and travels into a world imperilled by fascism and looming war. She also finds great beauty and courage. In her encounters with people and places, she reflects on the power and weight of making choices and on the forces influencing desire. Throughout the book, images of dendritic forms, in leaves, rivers, maps, convey how paths branch into new paths with decisive turns.
Written, drawn, printed and bound by the artist
Dimensions: 12.125 x 7.25
Edition of 39; Printed in 2023.
Price $750
Process:
Letterpress printed on a Vandercook 4 cylinder press
with photo-polymer plates , wood type, and carved linoleum.
Watercolor painted.
Hand-bound sewn folios with book board and book cloth.
Typefaces are: Goudy Old Style, Kabel, Savoye and various Futuras.
Materials:
Printed on 175 gsm Somerset text, a mouldmade cotton produced in St. Cuthbert’s Mill in the United Kingdom; and 300gsm Moulin du Gué, which is cotton and flax, produced in the Rhône-Alpes region of France. Transparent page is acid-free cotton Clearprint. Sewn with linen thread. The book cloth is Duo, which is rayon with acid-free paper backing.
Avalanche Safety is a series of books that uses story to explore how we navigate risk and uncertainty in unstable, overwhelming times.
The first book, The Rocky Mountains and Chamonix Alps was completed in 2020.
This book, From Colorado to the Karakoram, is the first chapter
of the second book in the series.
The second chapter of Book II is in process.
