A publishing house aspiring to weave a dialogue between images and words.

It now oversees the EpOx et BoTOx entity, maintaining its positioning regarding the printing and production method of the works (silkscreened from start to finish, and crafted by hand).

The urgency to claim more than just eccentricity or graphic singularity, to be more than an atypical and marginal niche, is becoming pressing: EpOx et BoTOx is not disappearing; it is merging into the heart of La Main Qui Cale as a collection that keeps its own catalog and will host future artist books with more sporadic releases than up until 2023. La Main Qui Cale, for its part, will publish all other forms of works (from annual or biennial journals (depending on the mood) to monographs) that can intertwine images with short stories, pamphlets, poems, essays, or cries—but never the last one.

First opus: “LiV LessiM”

Oct 13, 2025 | Editions

“Let’s be pragmatic:

“LiV LessiM is first and foremost a self-published edition that opens the publisher’s catalogue
« La Main Qui Cale ».

It was entirely screen-printed and hand-bound in a craft workshop tucked away in Auvergne, in an edition of 200 copies.

With the workshop resuming its publishing activities after 3 years, the papers used to make it represent everything that could be found and found again: end-of-ream sheets, leftover stock, welcome and unexpected donations, as well as the happy rediscovery of hidden, dusty stacks at the end of a pallet at the back of the workshop.

As a result, from one copy to the next, the texture, the thickness and the shade of the pages may vary, and the ink colours may shift to suit their support, with a view to keeping an aesthetic coherence. If the form offers variations, the substance remains unchanged.

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Let’s be poetic:

“LiV LessiM” is a collection of invocations for the use of anathemas,
or a little book of Blue Mass.

Bruise blue, bloodless blue: a Requiem in shades, in memory of those furrows carved into flesh and nerves, like graves in a cemetery.

A deliberately fragmentary anthology, a rigorous selection from a set of drawings that also had their textual twin—their verbal transcription—for a total of 11 illustrations and 11 associated texts.

Let’s be technical:

24-page book, 21x30cm, transparent binding, entirely screen-printed
(2 colours for the inside pages – 4-colour cover)
200 numbered and signed copies
Éditions La Main Qui Cale,
Metemphase workshop, September 2025.

A namesake poster featuring the cover image was also printed in 50x70cm format in 31 signed and numbered copies.