PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Design process:
The author wanted to feature Michelle Sound's art work on the cover. The image we chose was one of her cyanotypes printed on an elkhide drum. This image was a useful constraint to help signify that this is a book that deals with natural spaces in unexpected ways. The landscape was centered and the type was de-centered, to help reinforce the author's attempt to de-center human perception. The jacket is printed on an uncoated textured paper. The background color comes from the natural hue of the paper.

Synopsis from the Publisher:
Re-imagining the nineteenth-century text, The Last of the Mohicans, from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge and spiritual traditions was severed by colonial violence, Abel attempts to answer his research question of what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory. Engaging the land through fiction and metaphor, Abel creates an eerie, looping, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America.

The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing. Rather than turning to characters and dialogue to explore truth, Abel invites us to instead understand that the land knows everything that can and will happen, even as the world lurches toward uncertainty.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 6 x 8 inches

Number of Pages: 225

Binding Method: notch / burst binding

Paper: Mohawk, natural, laid, 80#, cover, press varnish

Typefaces: Sabon

CREDIT INFORMATION

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Jacket/Cover Designer: Dustin Kilgore

Illustrator: Michelle Sound

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Production Director: Joyce Ippolito

Production Coordinator: Katie Golden

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