Although. Test Prints for the New Arrivals

Technique:
Silk screened two colour monoprint, rolled monoprint and hand-burnished wood engraving onto pages 16-288, "Iran. Rebirth of a Timeless Empire." by Rene Maheu, Jean Boissel and Bruno Barbey, Published by Grands Livres, 1976.

Dimensions:
304mm x 255mm.

The idea comes from imagining that by chance, or design, various groups using a print studio/print shop (somewhere) have no other paper to use for their samples, so decide that they must cut the pages from this book that happens to be lying around. Its information is considered redundant, published 3 years before the Iranian revolution.
A silk screen image is printed (for a record label?) showing a distorted (melted) logo from the Iranian Space Agency. (There was some controversy (in reality) relating to this logo when there was a recent redesign of the Pentagon’s Missile Defence Agency. It appeared to be fusing Obama’s Campaign logo with the Muslim Crescent Moon and the Iranian Space Agency).

Further recycling of the pages see the wood engraving etc appearing.

I like the way, as individual prints, each collector is getting something more than an identical multiple, and yet they are also getting something less; it is fragment of a whole.