Founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization, the International Society of Copier Artists’ mission is to recognize and promote the use of the copier as a creative tool. The ISCA Quarterly was the assemblage project of the Society whose activities also include lectures, slide shows, workshops, and traveling exhibitions. Issues of the journal are composed entirely of original art made by contributing artists – printmakers, painters, photographers, graphic designers, book artists and computer graphists who use the photocopy machine to create works of art in editions of 125. In June of 1986, The ISCA Quarterly put out its first annual book issue, and for the next eighteen years, until June 2003, one issue a year was dedicated to artists’ books. Presented in a 25 x 21 x 6 cm labeled cardboard box, the book issue is densely packed with dozens of small to miniature sized bookworks employing a remarkable range of forms and styles.

This 2011 edition includes a remarkable array of works produced during the lifespan of The ISCA Quarterly. The sequencing of the prints though not chronological, reflects one artist’s response to the events of a twenty-one year period of transformational historical, social, and political turmoil. Only printed as an edition of 20, Original Copies is truly a rare find!