A study of holiday decorations on or in front of houses in San Francsico, California and Denver, Colorado.
The Water Cycle book is a double sided book bound in the leoparello style. One side depicts the standard watercycle through letterpress imagery and text with cut-outs and the other side depicts the polluted water cycle with melting glaciers and acid rain. The book is hand bound with hard covers.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not is an artist book comprised of individual cyanotypes sewn together with pink thread in a an accordion style. The book has hard covers with a hand drawn and hand cut flower on the front of each cover.
P is for Plants is a field journal of sorts with pages made from an orphaned Encyclopedia Britannica; volume PLANTS to RAYM. Each page contains a study of a plant, beginning with P, drawn on top of the existing content. While the project began as an upcycling one, using something old, applying something new to create something different, it also contains a snapshot of the layers of knowledge, meaning, and information that exist in the world and that can easily over- and under-whelm us in the digital era.
The book is hinge-accordion bound with mock half bound hard covers. Each page is hand lettered, illustrated, inked, and colored by the artist. This book is an unique edition of 1.
Flores is the first 'field journal of sorts' in an ongoing project. The pages of this artist's book are made from an orphaned Encyclopedia Britannica; volume PLANTS to RAYM. Each page contains a line drawing study of a flower, on top of the existing content. Common and Latin names for each flower are hand lettered onto the pages to encourage learning. This project is intended to be a work of book art and an altered book project but it also contains a snapshot of the layers of knowledge, meaning, and information that exist in the world and that can easily over- and under-whelm us in the digital era.
The book is hinge-accordion bound with mock half bound hard covers. Each page is hand lettered, illustrated, and inked by the artist. This book is an unique edition of 1.
Punctuation Coasters is a functional book arts project; meaning that it acts not only as a work of book art to view, but also as a set of functional tools, coasters, intended for use by the possessor. Despite having a cover and colophon, this book is not bound in the traditional sense, but rather it exists as eleven coasters that break down and celebrate the building blocks of a sentence: punctuation. Each punctuation mark; ampersand, colon & semi colon, comma, ellipsis, exclamation point, hyphen, period, question mark, quotation marks; has a coaster of its own to showcase its importance.
This project was letterpress printed using a tabletop platen press in the autumn of 2014. All text is hand-set Stymie lead type of varying sizes and styles. All punctuation is wood type. This book was made in an edition of 25 with 3 Artist's Proofs. {this project is sold out}
