Artist Member
Getting There, Being There
6 x 10″ closed, 18 x 10 x 6 ” open
Digitized photos and digital illustrations. Text printed with pigmented inks on Weber-Valentine paper. Housed in a printed Mohawk Superfine paper wrapper.
This Way That Way: Lost in a Pandemic
2.25 x 3″ miniature, extends to 18 x 11.25″
Snake-fold construction
Original photographs digitally printed on recycled Mohawk paper. In printed sleeve. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Transformations
Sculptural forms of various sizes ranging from 13 x 5″ to 13 x 12″ (closed)
Archival inks printed on metal plates, cardboard, metal fasteners.
Marcia Ciro 
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BIO
Marcia’s artist’s books have been collected by museums and libraries nationally and internationally. She has taught book arts at the former Art Institute of Boston, Holy Cross, DeCordova Museum and other locations, and exhibited widely. Marcia co-ran Boston Book Arts in the 1990s, a group of approx. 80 members, who meet once a month for critiques, lectures, etc. She lives and works in Watertown, MA. She is represented by Vamp & Tramp.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My work uses photography and drawing to record and react to the world around me. I am interested in pursuing those images that show me something I haven’t seen before, and to make connections between disparate images to create something new.
In the past, I have often worked with a series of images, lending itself naturally to the narrative and sequential properties of the artist book form. My artist’s books are one-of-a-kinds, or in small editions. Although I play with typical book content, such as words and pictures, it is more important that concept, text, image, format and structure have equal time.
Our environment, whether man-made or natural, and the stratagems we devise to control it are of particular interest to me. My interest in the environment leads me to think about our value systems; how we assign merit to things, time, and life. These thoughts lead to musings about our inner life and how we deal with the inevitable conflicts that arise