We Two Boys
2003
monoprint book (front cover and first spread shown)
16 2-sided pages including cover, each 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
opens flat to 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)

The lines of Walt Whitman's poem We two boys together clinging are read on sequential pages as the book opens outward.

We two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, ailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.