In addition to several published “livres d’artiste” ( i.e. Distillation: BenjaminBaudelaire, & Walter Benjamin à Paris et ailleurs), I am involved in a deconstruction of the physical book and a re reading by means of redaction ( Ulysses & Birds of America for WB).  In both instances the redaction is done in gouache on the printed pages.  Silver and gold paint is employed for the dual monologues of both Molly Bloom :Night, and of Leopold Bloom: Day  in James Joyces’s Ulysses.   In Ulysses, I worked on the first American edition of the book by Random House in 1947, text design by Bennett Cerf. This edition has neither the  shape, color, nor layout of the first edition of Ulysses from Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1922. It is, however, the one with which we are most familiar.  A 1922 facsimile book was re issued  by Dover Press in 2009.   I am especially interested by the innovative  textual physicality of Ulysses. It provided me a base for blocks of small abstract paintings upon the dense monologues of  Molly and Leopold.