Journal of Evidence Weekly. Vol. 138.

Leporello of 31 panels, continuously printed with a frieze of drawings with text; verso blank. Colophon mounted under back cover. Printed wrapper. Edition limited to 100 copies on Rives paper, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. This letterpress edition of the "Journal of Evidence Weekly" Volume 138 was published on the occasion of Martin Wilner's exhibition, 'More Drawings about History and Evidence' at Pierogi in Brooklyn, New York, January-February 2008.Wilner's project, "The Journal of Evidence Weekly," is a series of sketchbooks filled with meticulously drawn surrealistic portraits of the people he enounters every time he rides the subway in New York, to and from his practice as a psychiatrist. Following his strict format, each drawing is dated and inscribed with the name of the stations at which the trip began and ended. Gnarled and precise, free in its recourse to fantasy, and unhesitating in its distortion, it presents a cavalcade of strange, vivid personalities, isolated in their own journeys, and on their own pages. Volume 138 was executed between June and September 2007."The Journal of Evidence Weekly" runs concurrent with another project of Wilner's, "Making History," in which he records one event for each day in each date box of a series of calendars. …