Problems of Scale

A diagrammatic exploration of the syntax of a text as seen through multiple lenses of human interaction. Text by Joanna Ruocco. Images and design by the Kidney Press. Printed with metal type on Hahnemuhle Bugra, Chartham vellum and handmade abaca paper. Modified hard cover long stitch binding, in a slipcase.

2011

Compendium of Domestic Incidents

The quotidian, the erotic, the sometimes violent interactions occuring during the course of everyday activities within domestic spaces. Text by Joanna Ruocco, images by the Kidney Press, printed on handmade paper, of cotton rag and Alabama banana. Letterpress printed and silkscreened. An exposed spine binding, sewn on tapes, housed in a slipcase.

2010

Dodge County Summers

Many summers of my childhood were spent at my family's farm in Wisconsin. This book looks at the way I constructed a narrative of our family on that piece of land, and how I came to understand as an adult that most of that narrative was not really true. Fold-out sections allow for movement in two directions. Letterpress printed on a Vandercook 4 with linoleum reductions and polymer type and drawings, with handmade interior papers (cotton rag and hemp).

2009

Coma

An extended print, musing on climate change and migration, bound in Hedi Kyle's non-adhesive accordian structure. This structure has removable covers, so the book can be read by turning pages, or it can pulled out of the case as a long print. Handmade paste paper covers. Silkscreened and letterpress printed with metal type on a Vandercook 3.

2008

Burgle/Outskirts

In 2006 I lived for a year in Montevideo, Uruguay. This book is an attempt to understand that time, to mesh the political with personal experience, and to experiment with the form of a travelogue. Bound in ye olde codex structure- flatback, Canapetta cloth spine. Polymer type and drawings on handmade paper (cotton rag and abaca) with printed paste paper covers.

2009