Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Arion Press, 2014.

Dimensions: 14” x 10 3/4” x 1”.

Bound 2015.

Full olive calf leather binding with recessed areas, painted mylar laminations, wood veneer and sprayed acrylic paint. The mylar pieces are attached in such a way that they are raised up in patterns on the book’s surface, both obscuring and revealing the author and title beneath.

The binding design for this seminal American text references the simplicity of the literature, the obscurity of the literature, the clarity of the literature, the humility of the literature, and the pride of the literature.