30 Strange Spoons: Measuring an Unhomed Time is a new artist’s book created in collaboration with acclaimed Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose Your Country: the 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World, and the new Nation of Strangers(2026).

The book combines new writing by Ece with short excerpts from Nation of Strangers interspersed with letterpress images of the spoons she has been stealing during her a decade in exile. As Ece puts it, “These stolen coffee spoons are proof of my life, evidence that I have lived the last ten years. They are also the timeline for the mutating homeless self from a state of being shrunken with fear to a self that learns how to begin living after being unhomed.” Ece’s writing runs along the bottom of each page accompanied by silhouettes of the 30 spoons, printed in a lightly tinted varnish, creating a visual exploration of “our unhomed time” in a physical material manifestation.

The book is 48 pages in accordion format, measuring 4 1/2” x 7” (11.5×17.78cm), unfoldsing to 18 feet when fully extended. All of the text and images are letterpress printed in two passes on Gmund Cotton New Grey text, with a hot-foil stamped cover on Gmund Colors Stone, a letterpress printed title wrap on Lokta hand-made paper, and is encased in a protective foil-stamped enclosure. Books are bound and available for shipping or pickup in Providence, Rhode Island.

NOTE: International shipping is available! US and Canadian orders can be made below, for international orders please reach out to dan@dwriletterpress.net with your location and an adjusted shipping cost will be sent. Copies are also available for pickup in Rome, Italy, along with the Italian translation of Nation of Strangers (Straineri Come Te ) at Betterpress Studio, via Portuense 189, Roma.