for the trees is a collaborative risograph book experiment based on a series of drawings by Sarah Davidson. The publication was developed with Erica Wilk, who uses her Risograph publishing studio Moniker Press as a platform for artistic collaboration. The book also includes a text by Brynn McNab, written in response to the art.

Using only four risograph colours and coloured paper, for the trees utilizes colour layering techniques to create continuity with the original work and essay throughout the book.

for the trees
Drawings—Sarah Davidson
Book Design—Erica Wilk

you can’t see the forest
Essay—Brynn McNab

Risograph printed & published by Moniker Press
Perfect bound with fabric book tape binding.
52 pages—Edition of 150 $25
Vancouver, BC—2017
ISBN: 978-0-9937881-1-6

Trixie’s Trek with Triniti is a collaboration in both print and music from Jon Vaughn and Sean Christensen. Starting from a few drawings made by Vaughn last summer, Christensen explored the series of abstract marks as a guide for a journey between two characters in which Vaughn later named Trixie and Triniti, a dog and its human friend. The two explore worlds of fragmented landscapes, rivers and architectures, taking pause to swim, read and dream. Reality and its many possible dimensions collide as both time and space morph throughout of the book, creating a kind of non-linear story that can be entered and existed at any point, yet also ‘read’ from start to finish like a traditional comic. To complete the experience the two composed a 30 minute soundtrack of synthesizer, drums and drum machines, adding musical colour to risograph printed gradients and deep blacks of the mysterious book.

Drawings by Sean Christensen and Jon Vaughn
Collaborative Book Design by Erica Wilk and Jon Vaughn

Risograph Printed by Moniker Press
Edition of 150

$15
ISBN 978-0-9937881-8-5

Co-Published by Moniker Press and Ecstasy Edition

Kathy Slade’s Love Poem is made in homage to Michael Joseph Phillips’ “Graph of an Affair”, published in Third Assembling, a Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts, compiled by Richard Kostelanetz, Henry Korn, and Mike Metz in 1972. Slade’s attempts to recreate Phillips’ concrete poem were written on a Smith-Corona Skywriter manual typewriter with a faulty ribbon return and a tendency to jam. Each attempt here to complete the triangle of text has failed in a slightly different way.

$15

Softcover, 64 pages
8×10.5 inches
ISBN 9781927385296