Many Truths
4.75″ x 10.5″ x 5.25″ tall, 2 pages Wooden book stand and metal book with paper and encaustic. Components found in India. Also related to this trip are three other series of work, Jewel, Passages and Reflective Visions, and the books Guardians, law and custom and India. Also related to this trip are three series of work, Jewel, Passages and Reflective Visions, and the books law and custom, Guardians and India.
Reserve
14″ x 11 ” x 1″ A minature book version of two murals produced for the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, sits atop a wooden pedestal with eagle in front of the section of the Articles of Confederation which authorize the federal banking system. Read about the making of the two murals, 15′ and 20′, and the five accompanying panels.
West
7.5″ x 6.75″ A collaged book exploring the settling of the west. The cover is patinaed copper and leather. The pages are Canson mi tiens and paste paper with collage, graphite, colored pencil and copper foil. Made in Santa Fe, NM.
Gulf Coast
14.5″ x 9.5″ x 3.5 closed, 14.5″ x 19″ x 2.5″ open Each year I make a piece for the Altars + Icons Benefit Auction at the New Art Center in Newton, MA. The hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast, where I grew up, was in my thoughts as this portable “altar” was constructed.
Labeling Women
6″ x 5″ book, 40 pages Mixed media collage covered with marbled paper and silk spine. Created when I was a Visiting Artist at The American Academy in Rome, Labeling Women uses a variety of window and door frames cut from a piece of decorative paper to reveal glimpses of women selected from the art of Rome. They are “labeled”, correctly and incorrectly, with terms used to refer to women including sister, mother, mistress, dame, etc.See eight additional books created while in Rome.
Fasnacht
7.5″ x 6″ Mixed media colleged book with black leather cover, metal and red cord. Ephemera gathered at the 2005 Basel (Switzerland) Fasnacht celebration, a Protestant carnival. Viola Kaumlen shows photographs and gives a history of the Basler Fasnacht.
Milagros
3″ x 2″ x 1″ closed 3″ x 24″ open A concertina of old milagros attached to Arches black cover with glue, wire and string. The mirrored metal box was found in Santa Fe. Milagro is Spanish for miracle – the small metal objects are often nailed to crosses or placed in churches as requests or offerings.
Bingo
5.5″ x 4.5″ closed 5.5 ” x 27.5″ open A concertina of old bingo cards altered with silver leaf, metal, red and black paper and paint. The leatherette covered traveling box houses the concertina and the spinner.
9 11 plus 5
5.75″ x 5.5″, 26 pages Acrylic paste paint and collograph prints on Fabriano paper. Drum leaf binding with red kangaroo spine and acrylic painted ceramic covers. The pages were scanned and text added in Photoshop to create a page-turning flipbook.
Tis the season
7.75″ x 6″ A two page book/ leatherette box containing collaged metal figures of reindeer and angel with red raffia.