Vanity
7.5” x 9.5” x .25” Altered “School and Family Primer”, open to Lesson X, that asks the questions, “Is she a vain girl? If she is vain, is she good?”. Includes hat pin, silver leaf, raised lettering and aged mirror.
Moral Values
6.75” x 4.5” x .5” Painted clay covers, drumleaf binding, leather spine, collograph printed pages.
Failed Rose
8.75” x 11.75” x .5” Thermal bound book with inkjet prints and colored pencil on brown paper with poem by Emily Dickinson.
Viewpoint
6” x 4.5” x .5” Inkjet printed concertina book, with painted back and cover of handwoven fabric. See work related to this book, the series Viewpoint.
Solar Cross
13.125” x 13” x .25” Iconic images of circle, cross and square acrylic paste paintings on hotpress and vellum pages. Inkjet print over a collage constructed of gold moiré film, aluminum foil tape and silver leaf glued to precoated aluminum cover.
Las Mourtas de Juarez
14” x 4.25” x 2” A wooden Santos with handwritten message on a strip of paper cut from old Bible and folded as a concertina. The message is related to the killing of women in Juarez, Mexico.
Little Red
6.5” x 5” x .25” closed and 6.5” x 20” open Gustaf Dore etchings and Ellen Steiber poem in concertina format printed on Hahnemuehl fine art paper with printed canvas cover. Edition of 26.
Apologia
8” x 5.75” x .5” Altered book based on the Roycroft book, “Respectability”. Collage, colored pencil and pastel with leather cover.
Empire
9” x 4.25” x 1” Soldier paper dolls in a metal WWI map case with world map showing British Empire In 1921. The British Empire consisted of ¼ of the world’s population, and 14.2 million square miles, ¼ of the world’s area. With paper soldiers play “Empire” conquer territories, overthrow governments and exploit resources.
Climate Change
7.5” x 5.75” x 1.66” Acrylic paste under-paintings with inkjet prints, drum leaf binding, and patinaed copper foil over wood with leather spine.