studio detritus books, dimensions vary, not-quite blank books sewn onto hemp cords or linen tape, spines exposed, original drawings on pastepaper covers and endsheets
this side up, 2009, 26x12.5x4 cm, wedding guest book, pigment ink jet printed on magnani pescia with glama lope envelopes sewn in, bound by hand on exposed cords, with one cord that twines around and square knots in a bow on front cover
juxtapositions, 2000, 21x23.5 cm, series of 6 aquatint and hard ground etchings from copperplate, letterpress from handset lead type on frankfurt with glassine interleaving, pamphlet bound, signed and numbered, edition 35
we look to the sky, 2002, 15x22.5 cm, letterpress printed poem with cyanotypes, linocuts, and wood cuts, silk ribbon bookmark, bound by hand, enclosed in half-clamshell box, edition of 6 signed and numbered, 1-4 destroyed
a double petition, 2007, 26x28.5 cm, laser printed and letterpress printed, pastepaper covers and endsheets with 23k gold leaf, museum boards, exposed hemp cords, edition 2 signed and numbered
6 little girls, 2002, 26.5x36 cm when closed, letterpress from handset lead type, van dyck brown and linoleum block prints, back cover machine quilted from vintage fabric remnants, edition 10 signed and numbered, one display copy in muslin-covered clamshell box lined with linocuts.
wild child, 2008, 26.5x28.5x6.5 cm, pigment ink jet and letterpress on magnani pescia, pastepaper covers on museum boards, linen thread, exposed hemp cords, variable edition 6 signed and numbered
wild child, spine detail
wild child, exposed cords, detail
wild child, view from above
wild child, front cover, detail
wild child, “sometimes…you just have to put a dark square on a sheet of white paper” thematic of my thesis work, shown here letterpress printed from garamond, front matter, detail
wild child, brainstorming exercises for my thesis topic evolved into my page layout for the table of contents, detail
wild child, “dirt” section, printed
wild child, “dirt” section, page layout
wild child, ragdoll folio, sewn in, detail
wild child, “i’m telling” section break, detail
wild child, “i’m telling” section, page layout
wild child, lolita ii. folio, letterpress printed, detail
wild child, “desert bodies” section, page layout
wild child, “desert bodies” section, showing reproduction of “body in the desert” print, detail
wild child, “desert bodies” section, showing reproduction of “desert in the body” print, detail
wild child, lolita iii. folio, letterpress printed, detail
wild child, “honey” section gatefold, beeswax seal, detail
wild child, “honey” section gatefold, detail
wild child, “honey” section, page layout with narrative pushed to the margins and dichotomous terms intermingling
wild child, “honey” section, printed detail
wild child, “honey” section gatefold, detail
wild child, “re” section, pigment ink jet text block and letterpress from wood type
wild child, “re” section page layout
wild child, back cover, detail
Photodocumentation You Have Seen Me series, Ragdoll series, Lolita, Girl, Pale Girl, Girl Laughing, Rich Girl, Negative Norma, Pink Pillbox Hat, and Artist courtesy Patrick J. Finerty, Jr., and photodocumentation Body in the Desert, Desert in the Body, and Golden Plates series courtesy Luis Guerrero.
Grateful acknowledgment also to my former students, for sharing with me not just their work, but also their teaching and learning.
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