maddalena polletta small hours
maddalena polletta small hours

Maddalena Polletta

Small Hours

$20.00

2019
five hand-bound (4 saddle-stitched, 1 accordion) softcover books in a cloth-bound, hardcover folio, 70 pages total, color throughout
3 1/4 x 4 in.
Edition: 100
Small Hours contains five softcover books tucked inside a small folio. These contain meditations on personal, cultural and species-wide decline—the sorts of musings that arise, mostly unbidden, in the eponymous “small hours”. They also contain botanical illustrations under the titles Wood Skin and Chlorophyllia which both abstract and ground the book’s mesmerizing preoccupations. Published by Fleabites. Numbered.

Small Hours

Maddalena Polletta has lived and worked in New York City for the past 29 years. Since 1991 she has collaborated with a group of Artists and Writers, through the collective Fleabites, on artist books/zines. These books are sold cheaply and distributed via bookstores, collectives and art spaces. Maddalena lives with her husband, Pedro Diez, and son, Dante Diez, in a sixth floor walk-up.

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