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San Diego, CA: Bay Park Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Clamshell Case(s). Limited Edition. Hardcover. "'We're all born from water. What could be more natural than to swim all your life in that wonderful weightless medium.' - Esther Williams. Esther Williams was my hero growing up on Long Island Sound. I would see each of her movies and try to relive the fabulous water ballet sequences with my girlfriends. These past few years I have been swimming in a beautiful Olympic outdoor pool at the Y in Mission Valley. There are no sharks or seaweed as in my beloved La Jolla Cove. In the pool, palm trees and dappled light line my lanes of thought, perhaps an elephant or two. This book reflects my love of La Jolla Cove and my daily swims to the quarter-mile buoy when the ocean is above 65 degrees. The text was printed on Fabriano Rosapina in Clarendon 30 point type. There are six etchings and three unique oil paintings on mylar in each book. With thanks to Jim Machacek for his guidance…
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Dimity of Blue: Poems by Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats
by Rubottom, Sibyl
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San Diego, California:: Sibyl Rubottom,, 2010.. Edition of 10. 4 x 5.75"; 12 pages. Double-sided accordion. Four original silk painting collages. Intaglio covers. Letterpress-printed, painted, and bound at Bay Park Press. Housed in an aqua blue cloth-covered French style clamshell box. Printed at Bay Park Press. [Dimity: a thin cotton fabric with a texture produced by weaving together yarns of different thicknesses.] Three poems, one each by Neruda (in English translation), Dickinson, and Yeats, accompanied by Rubottom's collage paintings.
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