Author Description

This book is a visual autobiography, starting with Nettle's girlhood through her daughter's first year. The images were produced using Kwik Print on vinyl. The laborious process involved coating light sensitive color onto a vinyl base, contact printing large negatives and then washing away the unexposed color with water. Nettles would then sand the layer for effect before applying the next of many exposures. The book is a spectacular example of an artist's book, with deckled endpapers, fine cloth binding for both the book and the slipcase, matching portfolio insert for the special edition, and spot varnished four-color images on acid-free 100# coated paper. A dust jacket was printed at a later time and was not contemporaneous with the first edition. 72 pages; 67 color photographic plates; 11.5 x 11.5 inches.