Paintings and drawings by
Timothy C. Ely & Ian H. Boyden
Co-published by
Planetary Collage, Colfax, WA
Crab Quill Press, Walla Walla, WA, 2005
Edition of two unique volumes.
Price Volume 1: $11,500
Price Volume 2: $12,500
As a set: $21,500
Near To the Place Where They Should Meet is a collaborative, manuscript
book that contemplates aspects of "numinous geometry"-- the articulation
of spirit-using line, sigil, and fluid dynamics. The images were
produced as a series of exchanges over the course of several months,
with one artist making a set of marks to trigger the other's response.
The individual drawings reflect both artists' interests in pigments and
the pigments' carriers, as well as the ways these interactions find
analogues in psychological experience. The artists explore the variety
and magnitudes of blacks, as well as dreamlike reactions among the
minerals and iron compounds. Two volumes of this hand-painted book
were produced.
Title pages were designed and printed by Ian Boyden. The binding is a
Planetary Collage standard drum-leaf binding with a polished goatskin
spine and paulonia boards. The books measure 19 x 13 inches. The
fore-edges of the boards remain untrimmed and out of square,
maintaining the elegant edge of the original tree. The books and boxes
were made at Crab Quill Press in Walla Walla, Washington and at
Planetary Collage, Colfax, Washington during a span of ten months in
2004 and 2005.
Box dimensions: 20 x 14 x 1.5 inches.
Book dimensions: 19 x 13 x 1 inches.
