IN THE COURT OF THE CONQUEROR
            Patty Ortiz and george emilio sanchez
            












Curator’s Statement: This artist’s book came to be after witnessing the time-based video/performance In the Court of the Conqueror by Patty ortiz and george emilio sanchez at Abrons Arts Center in New York, March 2022. The book is a memory construction of an audience experience, an experimental document from a collaboration with numerous art forms — visual, video, performance, text. Herein, the images become a visual metaphor of the text, a narrative about the historical struggles around sovereignty of Native Nations in the United States and the journey to locate indigenous identity for a non-tribal citizen.









Production Details

10.5 × 12 in
Custom tri-panel clamshell with leporello, side-sewn booklet, custom cyanotype 
Paper used: Crane’s Classic Crest 110lbC
Cover material: Iris bookcloth, Ochre
Cover finishing: 1 color foil stamp


Colophon

Edition of 15 + 3APs
Images by Patty Ortiz
Text by george emilio sanchez
Curated by Cydney Payton
Published by MAZZY PRESS Projects
Printing, binding, design by Small Editions
Clamshell construction by Sarah Smith
Letterpress printing by Sarah Nichols 
Letterpress plates by Boxcar Press
2023