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2016 · ref. 142375 — Limited to 24 copies of which this is one of 14 deluxe portfolios. A fine copy of this magnificent portfolio illustrating Strand's poem written in 1990. Twelve chine collé woodcuts and three letterpress pages interleaved with Kitakata Japan paper housed in a linen clamshell box with constructed inner folder. Each woodcut signed by Briggs colophon signed by Briggs and Strand. Colophon bears Roman numeral unique number for the each of the 14 portfolios. The cloth covered portfolio box inner chemise folder and letterpress pages were designed by Alice Leora Briggs and Kelly Leslie. Portfolio box and folder were constructed by Jace Graf of Cloverleaf Studios Austin Texas. From the artist's website: "Alice Leora Briggs born in an oil boomtown in West Texas grew up in Idaho's Snake River Valley and woke up later on la frontera the borderlands of the U.S. and México. Her investigations into human frailties have generated thousands of drawings woodcuts letterpress broadsides site-specific installations and books. Her artworks have been featured in over fifty solo exhibitions and are in over thirty-five public collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Library of Congress Oxford's Bodleian Library and Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Publications include Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez 2010 an illuminated manuscript-police blotter with writer Charles Bowden The Room 2016 a suite of twelve woodcuts with poet Mark Strand and Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon 2022 with photojournalist Julián Cardona. Briggs was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Slovakia and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020." Austin TX: Flatbed Press 2016. Briggs Alice Leora. The box measures 25.25 x 21.75 x 1.375 inches. Individual prints interleaved with Japan Kitakata paper. Flatbed Press books