Continual Conversation is a book within a book: the larger book contains girls’ underwear and cut player piano slots. A smaller booklet found inside contains idiosyncratic images and a text to tell the tale of an abused woman & her daughter, who are pushed to suicide by their absent husband / father.
This book is a re-imagining of Composition No. 1, the first ever "book in a box" originally published in the 1960s. Made up of loose pages in a clamshell box, each page has a self-contained narrative, leaving it to the reader to decide the order they read the book, and how much or how little of the book they want to read before they begin again.
A collaboration with text by Ron Padgett and drawings and photographs by Jim Dine. The Adventures was made when Padgett came to visit Dine and is a completely real adventure in that one never knew what the other was doing with their section.
