Codex, 
Eileen Ryan
“Veri’s time was running out, it was late November and as the sun disappeared so did the color on her wings. As ice moths grow old their cells begin to crumble, becoming fragile enough that the wind can take their wings. The remainder of their lives is spent on the ground looking up.”

Beetle galleries (unique patterns beetles make underneath the bark of trees), can be read as a pictographic language carved in nature. This collection of stories, CODEX, is a speculative transcription and interpretation of beetle galleries found in Portugal and Finland in 2022.

Language: English

Published by Unformed Informed (Publishing) 2023, design by Art Collart, printed by KIOSK Rotterdam. 12 pp. (brown RISO print), 10,5 x 29,7 cm, edition of 100.
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Codex is also available at: Tique, Antwerpen (BE), Footnote, Gent (BE), 12-15 Reading Room, Vilnius (LT), and Printed Matter NY, New York (US). Please contact them about the current stock.
Award: Mooi Marginaal 2022-2023
Codex, designed by book designer Art Collart, is awarded Mooi Marginaal. The prize for craftsmanship and attention to special publications from the Netherlands and Belgium.

From the jury report (dutch):

“Alles aan dit ‘zine’ klopt: het formaat, het op de inhoud toegesneden coverontwerp (met op de achterzijde een mooie bonus), het ruwe papier, de gekozen lettertypes met hier en daar bewust dansende letters. Je zou zelfs kunnen denken dat de verre van perfecte technische uitvoering (de druk, het snijwerk en het hechtwerk) een bewuste keuze zijn. Ik wist nog niet wat ik vasthad of ik was al overtuigd en die overtuiging kon alleen maar groeien toen ik kennismaakte met de inhoud.” 
Publishing Dialogues
CODEX is part of the Publishing Dialogues series, by artists/authors who explore language as an instrument and construct. With the series we want to create a space for small scale experiments. Not to publish a definitive, immutable object, but to make a suggestion. One that is open to improvement, revision, call-and-response, iteration, or even a full negation.

Other publications that are part of the series: .