After is an artist’s book about the life of the book in the digital age and the transitory nature of all things. It is structured in two sections using a dos-a-dos binding. The first section features photos of ghostly afterimages left behind on the glassine sheets protecting plates in the 1929 catalog of a private collection of Old Master paintings. At the end of the first section the real world intrudes when a thumb appears in the image. As the reader flips to the second side of the dos-a-dos, the imagery pivots to include afterimages of different kinds from the outside world. The verso of each page spread features a blackout poem created from 15th-century Zen iconoclast Ikkyu’s poem sequence Skeletons, about impermanence.

Letterpress & archival inkjet printing; unique blackout brushwork on each copy; hand-bound. Edition of 25 copies + 5 artist’s proofs.