Jeremy Dixon

Artist: Jeremy Dixon, Hazard Press (UK)

Title: Book for Boccaccio

Medium/technique(s): The book is ink-jet printed and is produced from six sheets of folded A5 paper, plus cover inserts, and bound together with Japanese stitching.

Edition size: 100

Artist Statement: The book celebrates the legacy of Boccaccio and looks at what his name and work means to people today. The images have been sourced from the internet and the chapter headings text-mined from the Decameron as translated by Richard Aldington. The chapter text was generated by the Facebook group Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Coursera ModPo).