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.

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.

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.