The Tool is a experimental artist monograph of sculptor and toolmaker Anton Alvarez. In his own words, Alvarez's practice focuses on the "creation of tools and processes for producing sculptural objects and architecture." The technology he creates is inextricable from the art it enables, blurring the line between tool and output.

The monograph reflects this theme across its three titualar sections. "Tool" pairs images of Alvarez's process with textual discussions of humanity's co-evolution with tools in the Paleolithic period. "Output" presents a gallery of Alvarez's finished works, the quantity of which suggest a certain frivolity. And "Conjecture" is comprised of a sequence of Al-generated outputs initially prompted by an image of one of Alvarez's stools. A ouroboros of text-to-image and image-to-text programs generates each piece sequentially, begging the question: at what point does the artist surrender to their tool?

Throughout the book, a mutating grid underscores the act of creation, the scale of the output, and the overtake of the tool. The cover is hand sewn to mimic the thread-wrapped furniture.