Sacred Spaces is an 86-page book that folds out to twenty feet by 4 feet and has hidden pages
The cloth bound cover folds down first. Flaps open from top and bottom building from an accordion model.
The view after fully opening the cover. 80+pages are stacked beneath in this view. Photo taken in China.
Page 58 of Sacred Spaces. Photo taken in garden of the Forbidden City in China.
Two vertical pages unfolded from Sacred Spaces. Photo taken along Caperton Bike Trail north of Morgantown, WV
Page from Sacred Spaces. Images of polar opposite views on spirituality.
Page from Sacred Spaces. Two beautiful people I know.
Page from Sacred Spaces. Book is in the permanent collection at West Virginia University.
70 x 7 was published with a grant from the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and printed at Chicory Press in Morgantown, WV. Production was with indigo printing and letterpress on Arches. 90 copies.
Text is primarily on letterpress strips bound into the book and folded at random angles to emulate the writer's confusion.
Imagery is manipulated photography with lots of visual rhyme. A border of images forms as the book progresses.
All photography was taken by the designer/author for this book.
Flashpoint is a time line of volcanic eruptions matched with human acts of anger. A glass amber running light from a 30s truck is mounted into the back cover of the book and pages with circular holes fall over it. Chicory press.
Tenfold is an accordion book that exposes ten three-dimensional abstractions of animals living in the Brazilian rain forest. The stories come from the Tacano Indian guide who led me on a trek through their jungle.
Tenfold can be read like a codex or can spread out and be self-standing to reveal all of the paper fold animals (which are all made of the same sheet of paper within a spread).
Book on a wall comparing two people aged 35 and 53.
Of Wildflowers. Letterpress and silkscreen with printed vellum sheets. 40 pages. Edition of 20 by Permutation Press.
Paper engineering Christmas card. Printed letterpress.
Thank you card to Tom Ockerse, concrete poet and graphic design professor at RISD
Touch:"Drug of Choice, Interactive book on a wall. Text is revealed as viewer presses plungers at sides of frame. Handmade paper, letterpress, photography and assemblage, including hypodermic needles. Detail at right.
You were no Geppetto, Sir. Book on the wall.Viewer is prompted to manipulate puppet in order to read story behind it. This is part of the Touch series--"inappropriate touch.
What's in Your Begging Bowl? Another in the touch series addressing those we don't touch or even see"the homeless. Text is on the matches, some spent, some unlit, chances to make a difference. The viewer is asked to contribute a message in the bowl that she is begging for, as we are all beggars in reality.
First Aid for the Heart. People can hurt. Others can heal. This piece celebrates those who stitch you back together. silkscreen, letterpress, sewing.
Used, As Is. This piece takes a humorous look at being traded in on a new sportier model. Silkscreen, liquid light on Arches, assemblage.
