Crepuscular and nocturnal inhabitants
An artists’ book (soon) and a zine (now)
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Bracketed by light
2022
26 page, perfect bound artists’ book, with 24 Indigo Digital White leaves on 310gsm Earl Black and two hand cut leaves on 110gsm PopTicks Black, bound in Indigo Digital White on 310gsm Earl Black, 160mm x 345mm
Printed by Bambra
Bound by Louise Jennison
Edition of 100
and
Went out for a walk
2022
Digital print zine
Edition of 40
This summer, we have been working on a new artists' book full of crepuscular and nocturnal inhabitants called Bracketed by light. It is because of, and for, six animals we recently fostered and are currently fostering, for their release back into the wild.
To Remy and Pip, two orphaned Grey-headed flying fox pups.
To Rosetta, an adult Little forest bat, so micro to the mega previous, but just as clever and awe-inspiring, a flutter of agility.
To Ruby, Clover, and Atlas, a brightness of Common, in name only, ringtail joeys.
It will be available from our stall at the forthcoming NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, and we are currently offering you the chance to pre-order an edition (to either collect in-person at the fair or receive by post after the 21st of March, 2022).
Pre-order Bracketed by light
Edition of 100
$80.00AUD
The proofing and printing stage is now complete, and we are rolling on to the hand-assembly stage of folding, cutting, gluing (much!), stacking. Wrapping the cover around the book block, and making sure everything is square and snug, is a slow process, and one best not rushed. If it can be done in the company of microbats, then all the better. A few (just a few!) steps before our new artists’ book is ready to be released into the wild come mid March.
Thank-you for your interest in, and preorders of, our forthcoming artists’ book full of crepuscular and nocturnal inhabitants, Bracketed by light. It, naturally, features Grey-headed flying foxes, microbats (if you know where to look and what sound to keep an ear out for), and a ringtail mum and joey. As with all things, it draws on recent walks, and red light illuminations through a sanctuary. It draws on what we have read and delved into, and to how we feel. All the while, awakening our connection to nature in the process.
We are increasingly aware of the boundaries we have made to define our patch, house by house, street by street, suburb by suburb. We think of the fragmented spaces we’ve made for ourselves and vow to keep transforming our inner-city garden into a sharable, edible green. Our garden will need a cornucopia of insects for the enticement of microbats (like the Gould pictured above), and more nesting materials for ringtails to harvest and carry in the curl of their tails.
With this artists’ book, we are inviting the reader to listen for the rustle of activity in the velvet light of night while leafing through the pages.
Joining this artists’ book, and launched at Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier 2022, from our table at the Meat Market on the 13th of February, is Went out for a walk. Please, we invite you to stretch your legs and take a wander. Some copies are still available.
Went out for a walk
Edition of 40
$6.00AUD
Punching ‘stars’ in the end papers (of a forthcoming artists’ book) and sculpting horizons with Honeybee scissors (for a recent zine), the process and where it lands continues to grow ever more entwined. It seems only fitting that after posting this collection of connections here to Marginalia that we need to feed Rosetta (Little forest bat) and Patrick (Gould’s wattled bat) their meal of mealworms.
Kinship on the page, we hope, we sprout.
As ever, please contact Bev Brown of Bat Rescue Bayside if you find an injured bat.
Please note: you need to be a qualified, vaccinated carer to handle bats.
Image credit: James Stuart, Volume 05: Natural history drawings of marine plants and animals, ca. 1839–1841, State Library of New South Wales
