{"product_id":"rafael-melendez-keep-your-distance-facsimile-sketchbook-academy-of-realness-2021","title":"RAFAEL MELENDEZ — Keep Your Distance: A 2006 Facsimile Sketchbook, The Academy of Realness, 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile artist sketchbook, Rafael Melendez, \u003cem\u003eKeep Your Distance: A 2006 Facsimile Sketchbook\u003c\/em\u003e. The Academy of Realness, 2021. Edition of 2. Spiral-bound, 8 × 15.5 cm, 102 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReproduces a small Japanese Crown Spiral notebook used as a private drawing journal in 2006. The cover carries original retail stickers, barcode labels, produce stickers, scuffs, and handling marks visible throughout the facsimile. Inside, the pages move between diaristic drawing, slogans, figures, word-play, fashion references, and direct address. The tone is sharp, private, funny, and occasionally abrasive — part sketchbook, part self-performance, part studio residue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA private working object returned as a very small edition. The notebook first existed as use: drawing, writing, testing, joking, recording. In facsimile form, it becomes a published object without losing the looseness of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The New Rare register, the value sits in that shift. A casual pocket journal becomes an edition. The informal page becomes evidence. The object remains close to the hand, but now circulates as archive, artist book, and document of early studio language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. The visible wear, stickers, marks, and retail labels are reproduced from the original source notebook and form part of the work. Ships carefully packed; UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Academy of Realness","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53897220653394,"sku":"MELENDEZ-ACADEMYREALNESS-CAT-2021-KYD","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Melendez_Rafael._Facsimile_sketchbook_keep_your_distance._2006.jpg?v=1782976408","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/rafael-melendez-keep-your-distance-facsimile-sketchbook-academy-of-realness-2021","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}