Text

by Imogen Reid

Text(ile) is Imogen Reid's first chapbook of visual work, containing 12 text(iles) and an afterword by the author.

'While making the work, I utilized chance interventions such as misprints and misalignments, as well as techniques such as cutting, turning, erasing, repeating and overprinting, as a means by which to rearrange the components of a single page of writing. // ... the words herein are woven together like cloth, a homespun yarn without a narrative or plot. Utilizing these techniques enabled me to gradually transform a once legible text into a printed text(ile) lodged within the texture of the page.'

High quality full colour digital print on matte 120 gsm paper with a 250 gsm cover. Size 180 x 230 mm, 36 pages, saddle stitch bound.

Edition of 99 copies, 21 copies of which come with a custom made charcoal cotton paper dust cover.

36 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2021

About the author

Imogen Reid completed a practice-based PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, her practice being writing. Her thesis focused on the ways in which film has been used by novelists as a resource to transform their writing practice, and on how the non-conventional writing techniques generated by film could, in turn, produce alternative forms of readability. Her work has appeared in Hotel, LossLit, gorse, Zeno Press, Elbow Room, Sublunary Editions, IceFloe Press, ToCall Magazine, Experiment-O, Soanyway and The Babel Tower Notice Board. She has a pamphlet with Gordian Projects and has also been published by Vanguard Editions and Rossi Contemporary.