Stephanie Copoulos-Selle
Citron Press

The Red Book of Cycles

1995, letterpress and colored woodcut13 ½ x 9 ¾ x  5/8 inches, 64 pages, edition 25

Color, light, and dark are used to show the passage of time in the narrative which is concretely linked to the real time of turning the book's pages.  It was influenced by the illuminated manuscript, book of hours of the middle ages,  a calendar of religious days produced for wealthy laymen.  This book is based on the twelve months of the year, uses mythological symbols and is a personal explanation of the twelve stages of man's life.   It begins with the cosmology and progresses through youth, procreation, psychological fears, rebirths, celebration, unity of the self, and etc.  The guardians are the helpmates one encounters at the various stages of life.