Sample data from FBI.gov of Hate Crimes committed by White offenders from 2009 to 2019. Includes samples of number of incidents by bias motivation for each page/year represented in a 60x60 grid of white dots.

Book is in a Japanese stab binding accounting ledger structure and the shape and proportions emulate a police citation book or colloquially (and sadly) often called a “posse box.”

This book was created in an effort to connect with the current racial and social climate in the US and to reconcile and become more aware of the role that my segment of the demographic–white and male individuals–plays. A vast majority of all hate crimes commited in the US are perpetrated by white males. The stark nature of white densely packed small dots on red paper combined with clear concise letterpress printed data serves to convey a contrasting small graphical presence to the large traumatic magnitude of these event. Events that are happening on at the least a weekly basis in the US. The choice of book structure, a “ledger” style book, was also intentional and meant to connect with the mechanized, desensitized, and increasingly normalized nature that our culture holds with regards to hate and violence. The book proportions utilized (that of a police citation “Posse Box,” a term that itself has deep racist undertones) also connect with the overlap of the stark contrasting nature of policing white populations and minority populations.

Titanium white ink polymer photogravure grid dots printed chine collé on red lokta paper with hatakami prakrtika paper for the pages and hand set letterpress in 24pt Blado Italic and 12pt 20th C. Medium.

“Blood drops” done with red India Ink.

Edition of 25 +1 AP.

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