Long story short : home is where the heart is
Ong Story Short was published in 1999, though the book was conceived and put together during a month-long residency at Yaddo Artists' Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY, in the Spring of 1997. The book is semi-autobiographical. It uses images of hands as a connecting motif throughout the book. I have alwys found hands to be particularly expressive. For some time, I had had the idea of taking on the challenge of trying to tell a story through the use of aphorisms or truisms. The collection, editing and positioning of these little cliches so that they told a narrative story took a great deal of time yet was fun in the way that a puzzle is fun. The book continues my interest in using large halftone dots in my books and pictures. I first became interested in them, and used them extensively, during my years in graduate school in the seventies. During that time I was learning how to make lith film for offset lithography at the Viusal Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, and spent many hours looking at halftone negatives on a darkroom light table. I also trained making color separations when I was working with Harry Christen at Christen Litho Lab, a color separation shop in Rochester.--from http://spaceheat.com/books/long-story-short
Print Book, English, 1997
Nexus Press ; Space Heater Editions/Zimmermann Multiples, Atlanta, Rhinecliff [New York], 1997