A Field Guide to Weeds
By Kim Beck
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc. 2007
A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. This project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—the very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoid—creep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the reader’s attention to the overlooked.
Cloth cover, sewn-bound, 96 p., 17.5 x 11.8cm, edition 750
ISBN: 978-0-89439-026-5
available from:
Printed Matter, Inc.
195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011
T: 212 925 0325, F: 212 925 0464
www.printedmatter.org
