Ironing Board: with poem by Lorna Crozier

Kingston, Ontario, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 2021.. Edition of 10 + 1 AP. 4.5 x 15 x 2.25"; 3 plywood ironing board shapped leaves; 4 pages of text plus cover and colophon. Ironing boards covered with fabric with added enhancements of doll sized clothes. Text screen-printed on cotton or linen fabrics. Signed and numbered by the artist. Lise Melhorn-Boe: "Each copy of this book is different, as I was using up fabric from my stash during the third Covid 19 pandemic lockdown. The fabrics are colour-coordinated. I had a wonderful time making the little shirts, dresses, pants and skirts—I used a YouTube video to learn how to make pleats. It took me back to my childhood when I made a lot of doll clothes. I did order the teeny tiny buttons online." The text by Lorna Crozier is one of her odes to an unlikely candidate for literary celebration - the ironing board. Of the ironing board she says "There’s no harm in it, the ironing board. It’s pared down to bare essentials, simply a level surface with two flat feet to stand on. It must be put away after every use. If not, things pile up — books, stacks of paper, wet mitts, a shirt with buttons missing, milk cartons that need to be recycled, nail clippers for a cat.”