San Francisco: Deeply Game Publications, 2025. Number 16 of 24 copies, signed and numbered by the book artist. This is a fascinating and inventive book by Sara Press, the highly regarded book artist.The work looks at the intersection of neurodiversity and femininity, and VEILINGS is a catalog of best practices for appearing normal and being attractive. Each veil has a label attached with advice about a practice that must be layered on top of one’s natural behavior in order to fit in with neurotypicals. The advice was culled from two types of source material:
1) Masking tips shared by high-functioning neurodiverse individuals in 21st Century discussion groups and publications, &
2) Dating tips from women’s magazines published in the mid-20th Century.

This catalog is printed on loose transparent sheets of paper with designs and taken from the original veil samples catlog titled Veilings, published in 1939. Each page has a small label stapled to the upper right corner with text from one of her sources on how to behave and interact with others in order to be successful. The pages are wrapped in tissue paper with the words "Impress Neurotypicals" repeatedly printed on the page.
Housed inside of a 12” x 8.5” black box with letterpressed title and colophon. There are 30 images and 60 pages. In fine condition.

Sara is a photographer, printmaker and book artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Under her imprint Deeply Game Publications, she has published nineteen interesting and well-designed book works in editions that range in size from 3 to 100 copies. Her projects have looked at neurodiversity, peculiar areas of overlap between nature and culture (for example: dog fighting, feral children, and our co-evolution with snakes); constructions of masculinity and femininity in our culture (e.g. bloodsports, military survival manuals, and mis-remembered fairy-tales), and the relationship between emotional and scientific reasoning.Her work is intended to expand peoples’ capacity for non-dichotomous thinking, which she feels is becoming something of a lost art.Sara’s work can be seen by the public in more than 50 rare books collections including those at the Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and dozens of universities’ collections. ARTBK/041825. Fine. More