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Cover of Image Narrative Journal, Gravity-Press Edition: the title over a polar grid and a ring mandala

The notebook · No. 01

Image Narrative Journal

Gravity-Press Edition

A polar grid on the left, ruled lines on the right. Map a thought, then find the words for it.

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Size
5 × 8 in · 120 pages
Binding
Perfect-bound paperback, printed in full colour on demand by Lulu
Made with
LayerPress, by Tem Noon

Inside

A spread: polar grid on the left page, ruled lines on the right

Every spread is a pair: an image page whose rings and spokes run off the edge in every direction, and a narrative page for the words. You are not just writing and not just drawing. You are doing both at once, and the spread holds them together.

Tem has been making these journals by hand since 2016, folding letter-size sheets into booklets. This Gravity-Press Edition is the same idea, designed in LayerPress and printed one copy at a time.

I like to have a notebook around, because at any moment, I may think of something I want to hold onto.
Tem Noon, Bring the Text Together, 2022

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