This artist’s book is a multi-dimensional reconceptualization of Brian Dailey’s 14 Stations at the Crossroads project, an autobiographical series of paired staged photographic tableaus and paintings linked through the symbolism of corresponding colors. The series is a narrative of the artist’s journey and a portrayal of the decisions that helped define his identity and character. When viewed in its totality, 14 Stations at the Crossroads reveals the full circle of an odyssey beginning in art and later to government and business, and finally back to art. Digging deeper into the various stations in the narrative arc, one finds hints of, if not the cause for, each pivotal point in the artist’s journey.

SPECIFICATIONS

Clamshell Box Construction:

13.25” x 17” x 3” (33.65 cm x 43 cm x 7.6 cm)

  • Top and bottom: Davy Board

  • Sides: poplar wood

  • Top: die-cut cross made with three hand-wrapped structural layers

  • Select sides: top and bottom wrapped with black Canapetta cloth

  • Cialux cloth used for boxes with four color sides: red, blue green, and yellow. Canapetta black used for sides of the fifth box design

  • Spine: blind deboss with 14 Stations symbol

Book Construction:

11.125” x 15.125” x 1.125” (28.25 cm x 38.4 cm x 2.85 cm)

  • Corners: inlaid and hand wrapped with same cialux material of the 4-color box sides

  • Binding: hand-sewn Coptic technique (no adhesive or glue) using number 18 linen archival waxed thread by Crawford Threads LTD; red thread (horizontal) and yellow thread (vertical)

  • Board cover: hand wrapped and printed on Mohawk Superfine paper over Davy Board

  • Pages: printed using CMYK offset with blind deboss on Mohawk superfine ultra-white 80# text weight

  • Spot varnish UV coating on images of both photographs and paintings

  • All pages with 14 Stations photos are deboss with sculpted plates

Notebook Construction:

8.75” x 12.125” x .75” (22.22 cm x 30.8 cm x 1.9 cm)

  • Outside book board cover: black Spanish premium bonded leather

  • Pages: Mohawk Superfine soft white

  • Binding: symth-sewn technique

  • End sheets: printed black on Mohawk Superfine with hinges made of black Canapetta cloth

  • Cover: deboss die stamp using multilayer, kelly-green pigmented foil