Sunken Garden
Whenever I go to a new city or town I always visit the botanic gardens. This book was inspired by the remarkable installations in Edinburgh (Scotland) and Maine (USA).
Description: Artist book – monotype prints, handmade paper, hinged leporello format, 6″ x 36″ open, separate wrapper included – 2021 – inv. 9204
Positive Vibrations
Inspired by a song I had heard in a recent workshop on art and racism at Zea Mays Printmaking, I re-immersed myself in the music of John and Alice Coltrane. I was suddenly struck by John’s simple remedy in times of crisis:
“One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.”
A single vibration provides the spark, vibrations abound, connecting, merging, bridging, and flowering; they ultimately produce the energy needed to build a new and better world. Without such positive human energy, technology will fail, nations will fall, and our children and children’s children will inherit a broken world. Yes, I believe another world is possible but only if positive vibrations underpin our endeavors.
Description: artist book – drypoint monoprints, artist handmade paper, hinged leporello format 8″ x 32″ open; banner, 2 ½ “ x 21 ½ “ open; box with artist handmade paper and monoprints – 2022 – Hampshire College Library – inv. 9222
Night Passage
“A sphere has an “immeasurable hold over our senses.” * Étienne-Louis Boullée
Night Passage records a single night’s journey under the sway of the moon. My own restless half-dreamy circuit, limbs akimbo under tangled sheets fuses with a woman across the sea who, at night-fall must travel under cover to shores she may never reach.
The Night Passage project includes: 1) an artists’ book portfolio of six monotype/handmade paper collage works together with my haiku poems in a clamshell box, 2) a set of six archival limited edition giclée prints, and 3) a unique hand-pulled monotype collage.