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Anita Gangi Balkun

May 26, 2024

Building Books 2 – Twiggs Gallery, 2024

Ambling II
Watercolor paper, eco-printed images, wax, thread, enclosed in a handmade box, rust-dyed vintage linen cloth, 2021
Book: 8 x 8 x 1″
Box: 8.5 x 8.75”
$2600

Accordion book assembled from eco-printed and waxed papers cut into pieces based on triangles and polygons. The book folds flat (as an 8″ square) and can be pulled open and extended into multiple forms as a sculptural structure built from geometric shapes. The process of eco-printing: Native Connecticut leaves were gathered on my walks and printed on the papers using heat and pressure to extract the dye pigments.

Anita Gangi Balkun, Bloomfield, CT

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