This text was borrowed from an essay of the
same title published under the alias
Friendship as a Form of Life.
The full essay can be read here
This book was printed in letterpress on a Vandercook SP-20 named Charlie at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, 2019. The binding is a custom concertina and pamphlet stitch using hand dyed thread. The text is set in 12 pt. Kabel typeface. The paper is handmade overbeaten
cotton rag couched onto bleached abaca, and Arches Cover Black.
This book is dedicated to everyone living
in the spaces between.
Whose impossible distances from home, light the way out of these archipelagos of desertion.
Our distance is a moving, living form of life that pours on the
future.