Roadside Attractions, boxed set. - 2017

[Salt Lake City]:: Marnie Powers-Torrey,, 2017.. Deluxe boxed edition of 35. 5.5 x 5.5" four-flap box containing four 2.5 x 2.5" volumes laid in sectioned base. Each volume in paper slipcase. Found objects inked and printed on Masa, Niddegen, Lana Laid, and Domestic Etch via letterpress and gelatin monoprinting as well as stamping and risography. Volume 1 treated with sumi ink and salt wash. Volume III treated with wax. Each volume is a one page book with snake fold construction. Each volume signed and numbered by the artist. Box illustrated and with paper title label and twine and grommet closure. Marnie Powers-Torrey: "Roadside Attractions documents collected evidence, inviting the reader to draw individual conclusions on the quasi-environmental study conducted by the artist. The small boustrophedon forms take notice of the intricacy of waste that proliferates at America's roadsides. Each book is a grid of micro-meditations that attempt to balance human being's misuse of resources with our incredible ingenuity and progress. The prints document tiny indicators of how we thrive and falter -each micro page a critical piece of an unknown something. The books' structure invites the viewer to map these discarded pieces without promise of arrival at a final destination. Simultaneously, the viewer is engaged in hypothesizing about the broken objects' former uses. ... The deluxe set travels in a box that opens like the back of a caravan wagon, taking goods and entertainment on the road."