Vwls

2015

Dartmouth Book Arts Workshop

Printed by Carly Schnitzler

Carly Schnitzler enrolled in the Book Arts Programme after being introduced to Sarah Smith and letterpress printing through an English course at Dartmouth. In her own words she explains the inspiration behind her work, Vwls: ‘Christian Bok is a Toronto-based conceptual poet and his collection, Eunoia is a very conceptually rigid exploration of English-language vowels. I wanted to flip his concept on its head by physically removing the vowels from each of the first five lines of his five vowel-specific poems, creating a constellation of holes where the most operative letters in words used to be.’ This piece is a combination of pressure and letterpress printing; and the vowels were removed with a Japanese screw punch tool – a laborious process but impressive looking!