Ornamental Digressions. A Showing of Pinwheel Ornaments.

Bookseller Notes

A wondrous book, divided into three sections: 'The Ornaments', an entirely pictorial glossary of the building blocks used presented through four basic designs; 'The Digressions', these ornaments used to create a variety of pattern designs, each of the 15 illustrating or illustrated by a quotation (a mix of technical and literary, with Henry James and Flaubert represented in the latter category); 'The Sources', the quotations identified and explained by Russell Maret with reference to how they relate to his process and their pictorial representation. Immersive in the manner of Maret's earlier 'Linear A to Linear Z', the concept of digression that is at the project's heart has allowed the printer to develop an expansive and allusive rendering of its basic materials, possessed of an elegance and wit that gives a really vivid quality to the imagery on the page.