ARTIST BOOKS

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An artist book made by journaling my grief, anxiety and sorrow, one signature or so a day, over more than a year's time. Click on photo for details.

Oversized accordion book, pages featuring mixed media art quilts, documenting my favorite walk in my favorite place in the woods.  Housed in handmade clamshell box. Click on photo for details.

Handcrafted artist book in collaboration with an old mushroom identification book written by Nina L Marshall in 1910, focused on mushrooms I have found in my own woods.

Small book of accordioned hexagons that opens out to reveal an original poem, housed in a handmade box:

Love is a honeycomb - 

thin walls gently touch,

form hexes,

nature's magic angle

between them.

Inside each cell

someone feels safe.

Or trapped.

Someone casts shadows

on the walls, reads

the shapes of others.

Hexagons

are less than round - 

over time things collect

in the almost corners.

Ordinary walls,

but from above,

beautiful,

repetition subtly

sliding into pattern.

The walls are

paper thin,

build a delicate

architecture.

But I bet they would

carry our weight.

Handmade box houses loose "pages" featuring photocopy artwork and original poetry about remembering home.

The Lens of Home

1. The lens of home grows thicker the longer we are gone.

2. Time is nearsighted.

3. An old man looking at childhood through thick spectacles : his eyes look huge.

4. Color gets through.  Shape is distorted.

5. Faces! faces and works, blurred so he thinks he cannot remember.

6. He really just cannot see.

7. The lens of home is convex.

8. Everything is upside down.