Building Books 1 – University of Southern Maine, 2023
Building Books 2 – Twiggs Gallery, 2024
Building a Home
7 books of pen and ink sketches on rust and indigo dyed book pages housed in an indigo dyed plaster box with acorn feet and a hand stitched roof of hand dyed cloth, paper and thread, 2022
6 h x 4.5 w x 3” d – closed
8 h x 12” w – open, variable display options
NFS
The foundation of our home is created by books so it seemed fitting to make a house from books. Each book is a room that houses drawings of objects whose history, memory and meaning combine to turn a house into our home.
Susan Marsh – Salem, MA