THE DELUXE EDITION

In an edition of just 75 copies, each of these take the form of an absurdly modified and artified 60 year old Classical music box. The cover of each box has an original, handmade, mixed media map of sorts adhered to it, made with spray paint, pastel powders, pencil, ink, and rubber stampings on heavy fine art paper. Hinged and over-layed on this artwork is a vintage atlas page with the maze of Chartres Cathedral printed on it. The spine of each box is painstakingly hand stamped in metallic silver ink. Inside the front of each box is composed of a disassembled and deliberately re-structured and misleading mapscape made of collaged atlas/map pages from a variety of sources. The inside back of each box has been neatly lined with a large piece of adhered striped linen fabric, and enfolded in this sheet is the 180gm translucent record inside its own folded, very oversized atlas page. Each of these inner “record sleeves” is then wrapped with a latitudinal and longitudinal obi strip. Finally… tucked into this bed of music in the first 65 copies is a large, old, full color 24” x 36” U.S. Army Aeronautical chart. On the back of each box is a corner mounted vintage aerial photograph, the back of which is hand stamped and numbered and features the printed album credits. Each of these 1.5 lb beauties comes snugly in its own oversized poly sleeve.