Sandpaper from Stairs: Indigenous Asperity (Artist's Book Series XV)

Asperity is a dangerous book - especially to the other books in the collection. Instead of paper, the book is printed on actual sandpaper. And a rather coarse sandpaper at that.

The work itself contrasts facts and figures which contrast Western ideas and indigenous knowledge. The item was sold in a plastic wrapper to keep it and others safe.

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David Stairs
Asperity (1989)
Portland, OR, Self-Published
Various facts and figures which contrast Western ideas with indigenous knowledge are printed on sandpaper with string binding
Cost: $6.00 | x48027 | Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection