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Nine of the twelve loose leaves have been darkly over-printed with images of women taken from the realms of art history; for example, Botticelli's Venus, a Rembrandt woman, Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland, and an Aboriginal figure.\n\nAs with much of Davis' work, 'Birthmark' suggests that notions of race and femaleness form ever-changing complex layers within an individual's personality and cannot be easily pinned down.\n\nThree of the leaves are over-printed with poems by Simon Perchik. The book's covering boards are made from thick corrugated card, again hand-torn and stained with ink.\n\nThe whole package, designed by A.S.C. Rower, is bound together with a length of rough baling twine which adds to the overall organic feel of the work and a pervasive earthiness suggestive of womanly fecundity.\n\nNAL copy is no. 57 in an edition of 150, signed by the artist, author and designer.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Nine of the twelve oversized pages of self-portraits are overlaid with historically significant object-images of women; three pages are over-printed with text.\n\nEach portrait floods the hand-torn page with large areas of muted color.\n\nDouble corregated acid-free boards are hand-torn to expose the corregation then stained with ink. Inside are 12 linoleum cuts printed with over-images on heavyweight hand-made Indian rag and wheat chaff paper with torn edges.\n\r\n\"Each page is two colors. A total of 9 similar-value inks are printed on straw colored paper. The three poems are Neuland type. 'Birthmark' is silkscreened onto the cover. 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