PAULA HAYES

Lucid Green (Limited), 2013

Book with 100 pages, printed on 80lb Mohawk Superfine on an HP Indigo; Text by the artist, typeset in Fedra Mono Smythe sewn signatures, with hand cut neoprene wrap Housed in a sage clothbound clamshell case Printed and bound at Conveyor Studio, NJ Limited Edition of 45 with 12 AP Signed, numbered, dated Arabic numbered exemplars 11 ½ x 9 inches (29.21 x 22.86 cm) Published by Carolina Nitsch, New York HAY-0003

Lucid Green relies equally on image, typography and word to create a poetic 'world' in which the reader is invited to enter through various portal s which the book offers.
Every detail of the book contains carefully nuanced details of the experience of a place named Lucid Green; a nature sanctuary set in an unknown time in the future. That future is a type of space and time that is different than the one we are in when we read the book, we are told, by the book's main character, Jill Poet. Jill is a being from another planet name Thear, who has come to Earth after an event called The Disappearance.
The book's 3 chapters Jill Poet, The Disappearance and Wonder bring the reader through her realization as a spirit that evokes the ambiguity of life and our love of a dying planet.