Building Books 2 – Twiggs Gallery, 2024
Drifting and Wandering
Single fold book, cyanotype
8 h x 6.5 w x .25 “d – closed
8 h x 12.85” – open
$350
I make artist’s books because, for quite some time, my prints had included music and a variety of different types of text. Each piece was sequential but confined to the rectangle, and it made perfect sense to me to transform the work into book form.
While experimenting with a variety of artist’s book structures, I became more and more interested in sculptural forms and the different ways in which books can be bound (or unbound). The work asks the question as to whether each “page” can exist on its own as a strong and resolved image; or whether it needs the sequential context in which to exist.
Building Books 1 – University of Southern Maine, 2023
Convoluted Architecture
Accordion fold with Gelli-print collage
15 h x 5 w x .5″ d – closed
15 h x 30″ wide – open
one-of-a-kind
$950
Each page of Convoluted Architecture is made from a Gelli print, but the images in my books and prints often begin with photographs that I’ve taken, either of my studio floor, ink floating on the surface of water, a bar of soap (yes, soap!) or other seemingly mundane things that I happen upon. I then manipulate them and turn them into polyester plate lithographs and transform them into sculptural, unique books. The origin of the work is inconsequential – it is the alteration that gives the image its new life.
