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Our team at the Imprint of the San Francisco Center for the Book is proud to announce the upcoming launch of Gail Wight’s Restless Dust, our 2009 artist-in-residence publication.
The edition consists of 50 signed and numbered multi-media installations housed in wooden boxes. The project’s illuminating birds, hand-bound letterpress-printed artist’s books, and screen-printed box lids make this among our most ambitious and unique offerings to date.

Gail Wight‘s text invites Charles Darwin’s ghost to sail to San Francisco and wander with her through the greater Bay Area terrain. The focus of the journey is three part: to celebrate Northern California’s unique species; to look at the ways in which Darwin’s legacy has impacted contemporary Bay Area culture; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of many of our local flora and fauna caused by environmental degradation.

Wight’s specialty is experimental media art focusing on issues of cognitive science and the history of scientific theory and technology. She is currently Associate Professor at Stanford University‘s Department of Art and Art History, and Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art and Experimental Media Arts.

Restless Dust‘s launch party is free, open to the public, and takes place on Friday December 4th from 7 to 9 P.M. at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Artist and author Gail Wight, who hand-set the text in metal type and carved linoleum blocks for printing, will give a brief talk about the project and copies of the book will be available for the final time at its pre-publication discount. It may also be ordered online along with the Center’s other fine Imprint products.

Big thanks to our crew of Rhiannon Alpers, Katherine Case, Colleen Stockmann and our fabulous team of volunteers who enable production of the Imprint’s editions.

The SFCB is at 300 DeHaro Street (entrance on 16th Street) in San Francisco.

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