I am so pleased to be included in this wonderful book arts show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My work – The Sea and the Unseen was accepted in the show and is now on view along side over 70 other artists. It’s been a while since I participated in a book arts exhibition and I realize how much I miss seeing all the amazing concepts and craftsmanship involved in each piece. I am thrilled to be in this show but also excited to start a new artist book soon!
Here’s a link to the catalog for UNSEEN – a book arts exhibition by form+concept and 23 Sandy.
https://23sandy.com/collections/unseen?utm_source=23%20Sandy%20Gallery&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Now%20on%20view%21%20UNSEEN%20%28Uuw7ze%29&_kx=zouZDqwkFJBLJo4khldH8Fm1W7jCV91mwtlV1BLyDBA%3D.W5i6my
The Sea and the Unseen (SU) was partly conceived as the second of three books which employ a reduction cut as the primary content. Each book addresses some sort of ecological issue. Broken Code was the first with its print Noisy Garden as the basis for a book that looks at GMOs. SU also provided a structure for me to present the tragic consequences of plastic waste filling our waterways. A mostly wordless book, SU uses the print The Sea as She Were to form the pages. This print is backed with a collograph made from actual trash, layers of dirty ink and paint and some technical terminology referencing plastics. The viewer can interact by flipping parts of the two sided print to increase the plastics into the blue fish-filled watery scene. Its covers are made with handmade paper – paper making itself is an intense process of forming a sheet while extracting a lot of water from a layer of pulp.