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.
Losing Ground
2009, 44 pages (in three editions) The deluxe and limited editions are 12″ x 12″, printed on the HP Indigo 5500 press with tipped in details and handwork on the pages. An embossed, patinaed copper title plate is affixed to the cover.• The deluxe edition of 6, bound in Aubergine Nigerian goat with a clamshell […]
HERetic: Joan of Arc
7” x 5”, 56 pages, Edition size 55. This small tribute to Joan of Arc resembles a limp vellum prayerbook of a kind that she might have carried during her battles. On each left hand page is text from “Le Ditie de Jehanne d’Arc” by Christine de Pizan, a French poetess. Written in 1429 when […]