Description
Upon seeing the Wanderlust theme I began rereading my travel sketchbooks kept over the last 25 years. I noticed the amount of space I’d devoted specifically to the coffee culture and dialects I discovered as I traveled in the United States. Most of my sketchbooks were created before the ubiquitous spread of Starbucks, so in rereading I became aware that each region of the U.S. had similarities in how they verbally responded to my question “Can I get some coffee please?” In the Pacific Northwest in response to my question I was given complex choices of type of coffee roast and cream. In the South the reply to my question often left me wondering what was said and whether or not I would be getting any coffee at all. In the Northeast a cup was quickly, enthusiastically filled with whatever coffee roast they were using, cream had to be requested. Even coffee cup styles were similar within a region. My book “Coffee Please?” sums up and presents the data collected in my travel sketchbooks.
Additional Information
| Title | Coffee Please? |
| Subtitle | A dialect guide for the United States |
| Artist/Creator | Sue Clancy |
| Artist's Nationality | United States |
| Place of Publication | Vancouver, Washington |
| Book Structure/ Binding Method | Accordion binding |
| Medium/ Materials | The pages are hand drawn with super black India ink, color pencil, and water color on Bristol paper, archival glue is used to collage the finished pages onto hand dyed cotton handmade paper which was trimmed and folded to fit into the box cover. The box cover is made with the same materials |
| Paper Stock | Bristol paper pages mounted on 100 percent cotton handmade paper |
| Number of Pages | 16 pages |
| Dimensions (WxH) or (WxHxD) | 3.25 x 4.25 x .75 inches closed. Extends out to 22 inches. |
| Publication Date | 2016 |
| Edition Size | Unique |
| Box/ Wrapper | Presented in a handmade paper box |
| Signed and Numbered? | Signed by the artist |
