Originally Posted by
Kirk Gittings
CHACO BODY 1991, about the Anasazi ruins at Chaco Canyon NM, with poet VB Price, designed by ArtSpace (Bill Peterson), financed by portfolio sales (the Albuquerque Museum, UNM, the University of Arizona and 2 private), 86 pages, 24 images, 5 poems, duotone, 8 1/2"x 10 !/2". 1000 hardcover, 3000 soft cover, distributed the first 5 years by the University of New Mexico Press. Thereafter we took the remaining copies back and marketed them through my exhibits, website and later events. It became a traveling exhibit that toured the SW, a 30+ time performance piece with the poet, and a local PBS special that aired nationally a few times. I have like 300 left. Enormously successful on many levels (it is mentioned in modern histories of New Mexico), it was an unbelievable amount of work and I vowed never to do it again.