By using a technique developed at the turn of the century, I was able to create a new nation, yearning to be real. This book is collage and maniuplated text...and dogs, lots and lots of dogs: the guardians of moral health in Dog State. This book was developed from complex, delicate collage paintings that were reproduced on a color copier. Each page is a self mat of Canson paper. Coptic binding with cloth-covered boards.

D.H. Lawrence was a peculiar man of great intellectual vigor and creativity. HIs scandalous marriage to Frieda was tempestuous and rife with rituals of violence and reconciliation. He demanded great devotion from his friends, attempting to control and change them for their own improvement. He eventually became estranged from all of them. He was passionately devoted to his own ideas, but would abandon them in a flash. His contemporaries considered him brilliant, but ultimately impossible. While he wrote many banned pages about the importance of a freer, mystical, almost religious sexuality, he remained, at heart, a Puritan. He was apparently never able to achieve the peace and pleasure, the "mystical union" that he sought. Here stands a reliquary for his hopes.