"Written, designed, printed and bound by Michelle Ray at Small Craft Advisory Press and formLab, Facility for Arts Research, Florida State University"--Colophon.

An artists' book on four leaves of paper sewn together to create two spines, joined by paper of varying length, folded, between them. Housed in a three-flap enclosure, with printed pressboard covers.

Text created with photopolymer plates, using Gill Sans typeface. Images generated with Rhino 3-D software and laser engraved. Printed on on Talas Antique Endleaf paper, enclosure is Canson Mi-Teintes and .080 board.--Artist's website

The idea for the project came from a document about Centralia, Pennsylvania, a mining town destroyed by underground fire and consequent sinkholes. The artist responds to how Centralia developed a strong identity because of its erasure. The artist "worked from the text of The Federal Cave Protection Act of 1988, an oddly poetic bureaucratic document created to give sanctuary to bits of earth no longer present. Using this document as a point of departure, [she] created an inquiry into absence, domesticity and memory..."--Artist's website

(http://www.michellerayart.com/the-cave-protection-act-of-2013.html, accessed 6/4/14)