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Books

2008

Landsquares
3'' x 3.25'' The same image, made of quilt-like squares, was printed on both sides of a 13” x 16.25” sheet, full bleed. It was folded and cut into a twelve page ox plow book.

Will
12.5'' x 7.75'' Seven hole side-sewn book with scored handmade paper cover incorporating an antique will and images inkjet printed on parchment like paper. “Will” combines a last will and testament with photographs taken by Viola Kaumlen of the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily. The author of the will leaves to his wife a “right of dower” and “during her life” the use of a sum of money “held in trust”.

Long ago and far away
9.5” x 40” in wooden box 3.5” x 10.25” x 2.5” Scroll made from sized rusted cotton fabric housed in a wooden box.

Crossed
5.25'' x 5.75'' Thermal bound acrylic paste paintings and collograph prints in a cover of the same paper that wraps around the spine in a single sheet.

Holga
2.25” x 32” in tube 2.5” x 7.5” Scroll of developed film taken with a Holga camera housed in a clear plastic tube.

Mayflower
6'' x 6'' x 1.5'' A longstitch book sewn through a leather spine with leather covered boards and a ceramic tile insert. Photographs of the ship and maps of the journey are printed on aged paper. The text, taken from Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, “Mayflower”, says: "One people’s quest for freedom resulted in the conquest and enslavement of another.”

Sol
6.25'' x 5.5'' From a metal representation of the sun god and a fragment of a woven pouch found in Peru, “Sol” was created. A board, covered with a scrap of dark burgundy suede pigskin, was glued into the center pocket of a slightly brighter leather bi-fold and the metal figure was glued against the two leathers. The front of the pouch was lined with the dark suede and a flap brought over the top. Cords were sewn across the top edges and the ends of the cords were bound together with sinew.

Signs
3.75'' x 12.25'' x 3.75'' Scroll made of uv cured ink skins glued to non woven fabric and boxed.

Land of the Inca
8'' x 5.25'' Collaged longstitch book with full leather cover. Made from ephemera collected in Cuzco, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley of Peru

Numbers
7.75'' x 5.5'' A five-hole butterfly stitch book with sheer handmade paper stenciled with handmade brass stencils and metal stamps

To Do
5.5” x 3.5” x 1.75” A vintage metal stand with a roll of paper, (of unknown length), for making grocery lists became “To Do”. Rub-on letters, crossed out, were added across the bottom of the paper roll as both a title and a commentary on making lists.

Sicily
8'' x 7'' Leather bound concave spine book decorated with gold leaf. Collaged ephemera on Rives bfk, and decorative papers. Made in Sicily.

Common Ground
6'' x 7.75'' Prints, paintings and drawings on a variety of papers, including Mylar and a heavy black handmade paper with embedded gold threads. The cover is painted wood, engraved with a co2 laser printer and leather spine sewn over tapes.

Arabesque
4.75'' x 4.75'' Cast iron single hinged folio with thin sheet of polymer clay.

Back from the War
6.5'' x 9.5'' Side sewn rebound antique photograph album with paper backed cloth-wrapped cover. The original pages, with faded photographs of WWI, were with interleaved with sheer vellum pages, containing details from the photographs and text from a poem by Wilfred Gibson.

Ennobling the Ordinary
6 wood images 2.75” x 1 5/8” each in wrapped pouch 3” x 2.75” x 1.75” closed, 6.25” x 19.75” open Images on small wooded boards housed in pockets of a wrapped leather pouch with bead closure. Read about this journal and see the series of work related to it.

Shadow Words
7.25'' x 5.25'' A three-hole pamphlet stitch book with pages of various textures and thicknesses made with gelatin printmaking techniques, collaged lace paper and a handmade rubber stamp.

Patriot Act
4.75'' x 3.5'' x 1.5'' Single fold hinged wooden folio with the image of Paul Revere, one of the most famous of patriots, on the cover and, on the inside, an acrylic paste painting and collograph print containing the definition of the USA Patriot Act.

Dorothy Simpson Krause • 800 Lakeside Circle #605, Pompano Beach, FL 33060 • 781 424 5276 • DotKrause@DotKrause.com