Slut, prut, FINALE (2025)

Slut, prut, FINALE (SPF), 2025

Slut, prut, FINALE: a Danish idiom meaning the definite end  – or "That's it".

Literal meaning: slut (the end), prut (fart), finale (finale).

This third and final A6 origami book in the series is about mankind’s eternal desire to control nature.

We plan to stop cows from farting and burping – to also lower their CO2 imprint on the planet – so we can enjoy beef and dairy, and with the help of science and technology we are getting there.

The front of the book unfolded to A4, revealing the purple cow.

The purple cow is a reference to Seth Godin's book: 'Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable' (2003) – that the unusual always draws more attention than the expected.

The choice to use the Danish idiom and that the first word can be mistaken by the offensive English word is no coincidence, neither is the choice of animal image: cow.

Cover of Slut, prut, FINALE (SPF), 2025

'Slut, prut, FINALE' can be seen as a companion piece to 'AI – Authentic Inanity' (June 2024)

and 'Fishy' (October 2024), which are also A6 origami book format – unfolding to A4.

All three pieces are comments on man's use of science and technology, for better or worse.

See film of the unfolding of the book. Recorded by Mike Nicholson of Ensixteen Editions, 2025.

A6 origami book format – unfolding to A4

10 pages, covers included.

Hand-printed using acrylic paint (hand-mixed colours), Gelli plate mono-printing, rubber stamps, plant and pochoir/stencil techniques. Hand-stitched and individually typed on Adler Special typewriter (circa 1950's) and one "flower" added using Spirograph ano 1973 and BIC ballpoint pens. Each piece also has one original postage stamp added, making each copy unique and the title added by hand using lettering stencils and Staedtler pigment liner 0.1 and 0.3.
Stock: 120gsm Fabriano Toned paper – coloured: 'Moss'.
Cover size: A6 (7.5 x 10.5 cm)
Language: Danish/English
Edition 40, individually numbered on typewriter and in a glassine envelope.
Published October 2025.

Slut, prut, FINALE (2025), in glassine envelope.

Launched at the Small Publishers Fair, October 24th 2025, at Conway Hall, London.

Use of mixed media. SPF 2025.

Use of Spirograph and stamps – representing cow dong from which flowers can grow.

Four cogs, representing the cow's four stomachs.

The four ways which CO2 emission is tried to be lowered.