Crown of Thorns, 2005. Edition of 3.
Crown of Thorns is meant to communicate the concept of sacrifice, using an easily recognizable symbol. This book was printed on an antique Vandercook 4 Letterpress. The pages are overprinted off-register purposefully, to look as though the word "take" is being sacrificed - it's taken away a little each page, until all you're left with is one simple statement in red - take what you want from me, you deserve it all. The folded fore-edge pages were then roughly trimmed and bound in piano hinge format, using acrylic stained dowel rods. A crown of thorns (Euphorbia Milli) was attached with hemp cord and the structure is then displayed on an antique wig stand.