 
There are two aspects of my work as a book artist that evolved from the processes I engage and, to my mind, evolved as 'genres' I regard as distinct from making artist's books in limited editions or 'multiples'. I sign, date, and number these artist's books.
While the majority of what I perceive as my "Copier Art" prints do evolve as editions of artist books, most of them do not. They are in my collection as one-of-a-kinds which I keep in loose leaf binders. This genre is mostly archival. Some are accompanied by 'masters' which I keep should I wish to replicate them to accommodate a collector. These are not available for purchase without a viewing. Such are made by an appointment-only basis. The prices of these range from $250 to $2500.
My "Waste·Not·Want·Not"s are one-of-a-kind assemblages, books that are comprised of page proofs. I will often assemble these 'seconds' and use copier or computer to print on the reverse sides of the pages (they're often the blank sides) and over-print (as seems needed) the printed sides when it improves on the serendipitous things I find as the pages evolve into becoming a book. It is a documentation of the work I've engaged over a span of time - often (intensively) the previous few months, but I also frequently will have in storage pages that have been lying around for years! It is a scavenging process, a seat-of-my-pants, intuitive, and helter-skelter assembling of disparate images, proofs, papers I had in stock, all making a signature of some 16 or more sides including covers. These works actualize as pure a portrayal of me and the terrain I've endeavored to traverse as anything I can
offer.
Purchasing a "Waste·Not·Want·Not" is to be buying a pig in a poke. No two books are alike as to content or design. What they do have in common is the algorithm that wrought them into existence.
$75 per book
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