"Valessa" by Val Denham and Vanessa Sinclair (2026)

Vimmerby, Sweden: Trapart Books (book), 2026.
11.25" x 8.5" x 0.625", 166 pages, hardcover with pictorial boards, ISBN 978-91-989449-6-9.

Burroughs and Gysin referencing: Valessa by artists Val Denham and Vanessa Sinclair, a collaborative work published in hardcover with pictorial boards by Trapart Books (Vimmerby, Sweden) in 2026, including 35 signed and numbered copies that come with original works of art. This book is a collection of "disruptive cut-up approaches and reverence for random revelations," featuring texts by both authors and collaborative artworks of collage, cut-up text, and painting. Introduction by Trapart Books publisher Carl Abrahamsson. 

Page 41 features a collage/cut-up by Vanessa Sinclair with painting by Val Denham; one material used in the collage is a page from William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin’s The Third Mind [not noted on the page, but from page 193 of the Viking edition]. Another artwork using a page from The Third Mind [page 180 of the Viking edition] appears on page 97.

The names of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin appear on the back cover of the book; The Exterminator appears in “Dreamt In A New Way” on page 51, and Naked Lunch appears in “Assembly” on page 68.

This is copy #4 of 35 copies signed by both artists and includes an original work of art from the book—this copy includes the page 41 artwork from The Third Mind, signed by Val Denham on the verso in 2024. Received directly from the publisher.