In Seven Observations, sheets of handmade unfurl as the viewer opens the box. In absence of an audience, the poems are hidden within the enclosure, like the other-worldly cave formations that exist unseen until illuminated by lamplight. The seven-stanza poem is printed on handmade abaca papers that have been tinted using pigment washes and viscous overbeaten cotton fiber applied with formation aid. The paper of this book requires close examination, its ethereal surface resembles etched rock or bone. Clues and evidence live within a ‘simple’ sheet of paper, just as they reside in the well-worn paths of our memories.
Seven Observations
Handmade paper paintings with poem printed from metal type housed in a brass gutter drop spine binding designed by the artist.
Variable edition of 4 with one artist’s proof
2020