WONDER MIGHT IGNITE
Incantatory Ignition, flying metal type, seeds of fire & atomic dancers
She says, it's a trick I'm learning to do.
I love this book. Made in 2012 for a word and object game called “Communicating Vessels,” that Nance O’Banion and I made up to instigate making. I drew what I imagined as “fire seeds” igniting creativity.
Letterpress printed, accordion binding.
Size closed: 5.5 x 9 inches; open: 11 x 9 inches. Edition: 25 Price 500
She carries a mercury vapor light,
kindling and flickering an inkling blaze…
She speaks her incantations only when out on a limb.
She touches off a whirl of wishes
smoke swirling in rhapsodic irrelevance.
