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BOOBS & DINKS; Early Detection Kits
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Crocheted, printed and assembled by hand
August 2007
$25.00 CAD
These plush crocheted breasts and penises have little lumps sewn inside that can be found by following instructions in the accompanying booklets. The booklets also teach you how to perform monthly self-examinations of your own precious privates!
Using the softness and humour of these BOOBS AND DINKS, I hope to eliminate some of the fear surrounding monthly exams and encourage people to check themselves often. Breast and testicular cancers are both treatable and often curable, if you find the problem early enough.
$5 from each sale is donated to Cottage Dreams-- a cancer recovery initiative you can learn more about by visiting www.cottagedreams.org
Each Early Detection Kit contains either 1 BOOB, or 1 DINK and comes with the relevant booklet. Booklet covers are screenprinted by hand. BOOBS AND DINKS are available in 4 colours: peach, biege, brown or dark brown: |
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Hung no. 3; Lonely Tylenol
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Printed at The Print Machine, Burlington, June 2007
$4.00 CAD
"It was then I began to view your body with suspicion. As though, with any random suggestion of illness, it might let you go. As though no body anywhere could ever be vessel enough to accommodate all of the days and decades people need for loving one another."
The third installment in the Hung series chronicles the fear I felt when my partner found a lump in a testicle last year. More broadly it tries to describe my reaction to our sudden confrontation with human frailty.
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Four Failed Proposals For A World That Won't Hurt
Visions (and drawings too!) by Shannon Gerard
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Printed, hand sewn and assembled in an edition of 40
Toronto, August 2006
$35.00 CAD
Four Failed Proposals For A World That Won't Hurt presents a series of waking fantasies about breaking off from this world and finding a totally safe and untouchable place to exist.
Printed in 35mm slide format, these four dreams are read on a hand-held slide viewer, creating an intimate space in which each person is totally alone with the images and free to explore the private nature of acts such as reading and dreaming.
For a closer look at the book's format and to read the first Proposal, click the thumbnails below:
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Stones & Ghosts volume 1: Some Thoughts On Faith and Wishing
Writing and Drawings by Shannon Gerard
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Printed and bound by hand in an edition of 60
Toronto, July 2006 through May 2007
$50.00 CAD
"In church, I often heard it said that nothing I could do would ever make God love me less. This was meant to indicate his boundless forgiveness, but it only made him seem immobile. Like nothing I could do would ever make God love me MORE."
Stones & Ghosts volume 1 attempts to face the unshakeable questions of faith while revisiting the ruins of childhood beliefs. It was first created as a series of 4 small books and later grew into a subscription series. To view the contents of the original package, click the thumbnails below:
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Between July 2006 and May 2007, subscribers received 5 more little books in the mail. For a look at books in the subscription series, click the thumbnails below:
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Subscription Book 1: Three Strikes (Strike Me Anywhere) |
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| Subscription Book 2: Hard |
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| Subscription Book 3: Readiness is All, or Tips for Inquisitive Homebodies (a board book) |
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| Subscription Book 4: Made and Unmade |
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| A limited number of Stones & Ghosts volume 1 remain. Email Shannon if you are interested in a copy. |
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Hung no.2; Drawn Onward
An Illustrated Memoir by Shannon Gerard
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Printed at Point None Graphics, Toronto, May 2006
ISBN 0.9736411.4.2
$4.00 CAD
"This is the basic unit of human intimacy-- recognition."
Drawn Onward is the second book in the HUNG series and deals with manners of dress-- social guises and uniforms of grief and remembrance. It is also about the slow rise of change and the risks of moving on.
Drawn Onward also comes with a fold-out Hipster Bingo boardgame!
For a glimpse inside, click the thumbnails below:
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Hung no. 1, Never Odd Or Even
An Illustrated Memoir by Shannon Gerard
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Stone Lithographs printed at York University, Toronto,
September 2004-February 2005
Book Printing by CJ Graphics, Toronto, May 2005.
ISBN 0-9736411-3-4
$4.00 CAD
"Since you left, I have been thinking quite a bit about trees."
The HUNG series walks a thin line between autobiography and myth, exploring some of the basic tensions between fact and fiction in life writing practices. The palindrome title of HUNG no.1, "Never Odd or Even" further illuminates these tensions and reflects the conjoined relationship between narrative and visual information in the comic book format itself.
Produced as a series of stone lithographs, and available now in book form, Hung no.1; Never Odd or Even is the first chapter in an on-going, autobiographical series.
For a peek inside, click the thumbnails below:
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Year
Writing by Shannon Gerard
with images from Popular Mechanics Illustrated Home Handyman
Encyclopedia and Guide, Book 8 (1961)
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Printed and bound in a limited edition of 50
Toronto, August 2005
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I remember this sensation.
It is like Yehuda Amichai's problem of architects in an old city:
"How to start loving again? How to build where houses once stood,
so that it will look like those times, but also,
like now?"
Year is a book about the seasonal shifts of coming to know Love, in its various incarnations. It is also about the daily effort of building a Life-- an effort that hardly feels like work.
For a look inside, click the thumbnails below:
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Day
Four poems by Shannon Gerard
Book design inspired by Maeve Hanna
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Printed and bound in a limited edition of 50
Toronto, July 2005
$15.00 CAD
"How long will you stay? For how long will you be the focus of my dreaming
and the gentle centre of my rest?"
The four books in this mini-series are small enough to be bound inside a pill-box, with different tiny treasures in each compartment. They are just wee enough to reflect the troublesome brevity of a day and just obsessive enough to reflect the narrow fears of a whole life.
To open the pill-box, click the thumbnails below:
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Beekeeping For Profit and Pleasure
Written by Shannon Gerard with found text by Addison Webb
and illustrations by Natalie Harlan Davis
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Printed and bound in a limited edition of 50
Toronto, July 2005
Found text and images:
Webb, Addison. Beekeeping For Profit and Pleasure. New York: Macmillan Company, 1944.
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It is a strange decision, at the beginning of a new relationship, to make a book about an old one. But even the most beautiful beginnings signal the end of all that came before. Maybe it is only the most beautiful beginnings that do this-- marking, more powerfully than the fits and starts of temporary intimacies, the place where everything changed. This little book is a monument to first loves, a quiet goodbye to the past, and wholly embraced belief in something new.
Click the thumbnails below for a small taste:
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