Artist Member
Boing
3″ x 3″ x .25″closed, 3″ x 16″ open
Concertina with dos-a-dos pop-ups
Paper, book board, book cloth, aluminum, and glue
Edition of two
For Now
11.5″ x 6.5″ x .25″ closed, open 11.5″ x 24″ open
Concertina Flag Book
Paper, book board, book cloth, and glue
Edition of four
The poem For Now was written by Stephen Ratiner and is published in his book, Grief’s Apostrophe. This collaborative book is one in an edition of four.
For Now
Near the end, she stopped
eating altogether. One evening
when I brought her chicken soup shoaled
with wild rice, a quick shake of her head,
whispering: what for? And yet, in sleep,
her mouth moved constantly, making a meal
of departure. Watching her, I wondered:
was the opposite of hunger grief? Grace?
Love or need – what feeds on our silence?
Not that it would have made a difference,
but I wished I’d proposed we take turns
with the spoon, a mouthful, a mouthful,
countering what for with for now.
Perspective Changing : Changing Perspective
2″ x 5 ” x 5.25″
4 dos-a-dos concertina books that are full of pop-ups
Paper, book cloth, book board, and glue
The book has a little stand to display the closed book.
When flying, which way is up, down, left or right? It all depends on one’s perspective, point of view and points of reference. Perspective in three-dimensional space is always changing. This one-of-a-kind artist’s book is made from aeronautical charts and collaged paper. The volume is made of four interconnected concertina books viewed by turning the book in a counter-clockwise direction. The viewer can follow the path of an airplane, (a DeHavilland Tiger Moth) over mountain and valley folds and pop-ups. The text in the book is about as one takes a different route, one sees different things from different perspectives. As things are changing, one can see more dimensions and begin to understand on a deeper level what something actually is.
Katherine Lobo 
BIO
Katherine Lobo earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metals and Fibers from the Philadelphia College of Art and a Graduate Certificate in Traditional Chinese Painting from the Tianjin Fine Arts College, Tianjin China. Her work has been displayed in galleries and is part of collections in museums and libraries.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Katherine Lobo’s work is about creating order in chaos, threads into cloth, paper into books and boxes. She creates books using a wide variety of book structures.