'Pretext is an attempt to document the field of creative book making in Australia and [New Zealand]. It is not a comprehensive history, but something more akin to a geocaching project. It tries to pull together stories, memories, scraps of writing, resources, and contacts that are relevant or perhaps obsolete but worth remembering' (website)
In this paper, first presented at the the 2014 Codex Australia 2014, Monica Oppen talks the impilses that drove her make books and the challenges she encountered.
