Book Work
In addition to the book works presented here,
I also create blank journals, which can be seen at this link: |
Journals |
Thread Ensemble - by Booked (a collaborative group of MC faculty and students)
These three books were completed during my graduate studies in Interdisciplinary Art.
Water Ways
This book was created in my first semester in Goddard College's MFA - Interdisciplinary Arts program. The images are printed using the cyanotype process.
Each page of this book documents a body of water that I visited during 2012. My intention will all of the travel that year was not simply to visit these waters, but being by water was often the most memorable aspect of each travel experience. The pages show: the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Tiber, the Arno, the Seine, Lake Michigan, Puget Sound, and the Ohio River.
Each page of this book documents a body of water that I visited during 2012. My intention will all of the travel that year was not simply to visit these waters, but being by water was often the most memorable aspect of each travel experience. The pages show: the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Tiber, the Arno, the Seine, Lake Michigan, Puget Sound, and the Ohio River.
Icaria
While studying art education at the University of Georgia, I was able to take two semesters of paper- and bookmaking.
This book functions as a case for the text of the story of Icarus as told by Ovid in the Metamorphosis.
The title page shows a map of the islands of the Agean Sea, with the title, Icaria, directly above the island of that name.
The internal images are based on images by Albredt Dürer.
This book functions as a case for the text of the story of Icarus as told by Ovid in the Metamorphosis.
The title page shows a map of the islands of the Agean Sea, with the title, Icaria, directly above the island of that name.
The internal images are based on images by Albredt Dürer.
The Alphabetic Tree
The Alphabetic Tree, also made at UGA, was the first "concept book" (i.e. not just a blank journal) that I made. I was also taking a course on the history of public education, and I became interested in early alphabet books that also sought to teach lessons of morality.
The epigraph here reads, "Look to the trees." That is as much moralizing as this book contains.
Each page holds a letter of the alphabet and an image of a tree - either a whole tree, a leaf, a cone or flower, or some bark - that begins with that letter. The back of the book contains an index of trees names that were used. All of the paper used in the book was handmade; I used leaves from a number of local trees as well as cotton fibers. The images designed by me, but they were hand-inked by Brian Baugh.
The epigraph here reads, "Look to the trees." That is as much moralizing as this book contains.
Each page holds a letter of the alphabet and an image of a tree - either a whole tree, a leaf, a cone or flower, or some bark - that begins with that letter. The back of the book contains an index of trees names that were used. All of the paper used in the book was handmade; I used leaves from a number of local trees as well as cotton fibers. The images designed by me, but they were hand-inked by Brian Baugh.