Nota Cano (2016)

Nota Cano comprises sixteen unfolding panels. Except the first (the title page) and the last (the colophon), each panel contains a line of the eponymous sonnet. When entirely unfolded and laid flat, the book can be read left-to-write, line by line, but not otherwise, as the panels do not unfold in the order of the lines—a unicursal labyrinth.

The title derives from Ovid’s Metamorphoses; it can be translated “I sing of things that are known.” By means of this phrase Ovid shifts the blame for the Pasiphaë myth he is about to recount and for its misogynistic undertones, inherited from the Greeks—as well as commits an anonymous authority fallacy.

The text is inkjet printed onto Mohawk Superfine. The text is Garamond Premier Pro. Each copy is wrapped with a paper obi.

Nota Cano
by Jane Knoll
Bennington, Vermont: Mrkgnao Press, December 2018
16 pages, 5.6 cm × 5.6 cm × 1.4 cm closed, extends to 21.8 cm × 21.8 cm when flat
Paper, inkjet
Edition of five signed and numbered copies