A short review written on
Simon Brown’s
Shit That Excretes the Person
published by Paper Pushers
shortlisted for the
Art Gallery of York University’s
Artists’s Book of the Moment.
It is a small thin volume. The synthetic silver cover stock repels the ink applied by letterpress, faint black excretions pool at the edges of the impression of the title. The binding glue is equally viscous, emerging suggestively from the slim space at the back of the book where spine and signatures meet. With its intimate dimensions, this book could slip easily into your breast pocket – or through the iron grate of a sewer. Read more.
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