• Night to Day to Night
    Night to Day to Night Coptic bound artist book of handmade sheets of abaca, torch ginger grass and black cotton rag paper, gradated in the vat by slowly changing fibers. In slip case. 3.5 X 2.25 X 7.5 in. slipcase; 7 in. radius - book open
  • Night to Day to Night
    Night to Day to Night Coptic bound artist book of handmade sheets of abaca, torch ginger grass and black cotton rag paper, gradated in the vat by slowly changing fibers. In slip case. 3.5 X 2.25 X 7.5 in. slipcase; 7 in. radius - book open
  • Night to Day to Night
    Night to Day to Night Coptic bound artist book of handmade sheets of abaca, torch ginger grass and black cotton rag paper, gradated in the vat by slowly changing fibers. In slip case. 3.5 X 2.25 X 7.5 in. slipcase; 7 in. radius - book open
  • Night to Day to Night
    Night to Day to Night Coptic bound artist book of handmade sheets of abaca, torch ginger grass and black cotton rag paper, gradated in the vat by slowly changing fibers. In slip case. 3.5 X 2.25 X 7.5 in. slipcase; 7 in. radius - book open
  • Time
    Time Altered book with found text. Encaustic, mica, antique watch. 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.25 in.
  • Time
    Time Altered book with found text. Encaustic, mica, antique watch. 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.25 in.
  • Time
    Time Altered book with found text. Encaustic, mica, antique watch. 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.25 in.
  • Carrying the World
    Carrying the World Altered World Pocket Atlas from 1944, with other vintage maps and imagery printed on kozo and interleaving paper, mica, rice from Japan, encaustic. Quote by Vandana Shiva: ““You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.” 5.5 X 4 X .5 in.
  • Carrying the World
    Carrying the World Altered World Pocket Atlas from 1944, with other vintage maps and imagery printed on kozo and interleaving paper, mica, rice from Japan, encaustic. Quote by Vandana Shiva: ““You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.” 5.5 X 4 X .5 in.
  • Carrying the World
    Carrying the World Altered World Pocket Atlas from 1944, with other vintage maps and imagery printed on kozo and interleaving paper, mica, rice from Japan, encaustic. Quote by Vandana Shiva: “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.” 5.5 X 4 X .5 in.
  • Night Flying
    Night Flying Artist book installation. Mixed media on Japanese Kozo scroll. Bamboo. 22 ft. x 48 in.
  • Night Flying
    Night Flying Artist book installation. Mixed media on Japanese Kozo scroll. Bamboo. 22 ft. x 48 in.
  • Dark to Light
    Dark to Light Coptic bound abaca, hemp, flax & black denim HMPapers, encaustic monotype, black stone, tornado splintered oak, marble, old knot found on the beach. 15.5 X 4.5 X 2 in.
  • Dark to Light
    Dark to Light detail
  • Dark to Light
    Dark to Light detail
  • Above the Eye
    Above the Eye Bound in an antique sewing attachment oak box (patented 2/19/1889). Closed 6.5 X 3.25 X 3.25 in.
  • Above the Eye
    Above the Eye Abaca, torch ginger grass and black cotton rag HMPapers (vat gradated), cast paper eye w/ mixed media. Open 6.5 X 1.75 X 12.5 in.
  • Above the Eye
    Above the Eye detail
  • Gestation, Embodiment, Transfiguration
    Gestation, Embodiment, Transfiguration Triptych of hinged wooden panels with leather binding, encaustic, mixed media open: 15in. X 4 ft. X 9in.
  • Gestation, Embodiment, Transfiguration
    Gestation, Embodiment, Transfiguration detail
  • nothing niente nada
    nothing niente nada Abaca HMPaper, clay, wax, ceramic circle, grass, antique boxes. 13 X 14 X 3 in.
  • nothing niente nada
    nothing niente nada open view
  • nothing niente nada
    nothing niente nada detail
  • Desert Paint Box
    Desert Paint Box Old found box tied with vintage leather. 1.5 X 9.75 X 3.25 in.
  • Desert Paint Box
    Desert Paint Box Cedar bark and abaca HMPapers, prickly pear papyrus, chunks of hematite and limonite found in a canyon wash, amber wax, crushed mesquite branch brushes & homemade desert willow branch charcoal. 1.5 X 9.75 X 3.25 in.
  • This Too Shall Pass
    This Too Shall Pass Encaustic monotype with handwritten text on piña HMPaper, tornado splintered oak, waxed “leaves” of gampi HMPaper, twig and roots. Wooden box. Quote by Henry David Thoreau: “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” 7h X 13w X 4d, opens to 18 inches.
  • This Too Shall Pass
    This Too Shall Pass detail
  • This Too Shall Pass
    This Too Shall Pass detail
  • Within
    Within Bound in an antique sewing attachment oak box (patented 2/19/1889). Closed 6.5 X 3.25 X 3.25 in.
  • Within
    Within Abaca, torch ginger grass and black cotton rag HMPapers (vat gradated), cast paper face w/ mixed media. open 6.5 X 1.75 X 12.5 in.
  • Waterfall
    Waterfall Sumi ink wash on handmade gampi paper, beeswax, antique spools, redwood shingles. 36 X 26 X 5 in.
  • Waterfall
    Waterfall Detail. Open 36 X 26 X 5 in.
  • Aftermath
    Aftermath Silver and gold leafed covered accordion binding.
  • Aftermath
    Aftermath Sumi ink wash, accordian folded hand made abaca paper with gold and silver leafed cover, linen cording. Open 9.5 in. X 7 ft.
  • Aftermath
    Aftermath detail
  • Aftermath
    Aftermath detail
  • Aftermath
    Aftermath detail
  • Wind Through the Pages
    Wind Through the Pages High shrinkage flax HMPaper, branches. 8 X 6 X 2 in.
  • Wind Through the Pages
    Wind Through the Pages detail
  • Boat Book
    Boat Book Bound gradating cotton rag & seaweed HMPaper, lashed willow branches create a boat skeleton as a centerfold. 20 X 15 X 6 in.
  • Hands of the Saints
    Hands of the Saints Accordion black pigmented abaca paper, white conté, gold leaf, dyed wooden box. 16 hands drawn from Italian Renaissance paintings and frescoes in museums and churches in Florence, Italy.
  • Hands of the Saints
    Hands of the Saints Accordion black pigmented abaca paper, white conté, gold leaf, dyed wooden box. 16 hands drawn from Italian Renaissance paintings and frescoes in museums and churches in Florence, Italy.
  • Hands of the Saints
    Hands of the Saints Accordion black pigmented abaca paper, white conté, gold leaf, dyed wooden box. 16 hands drawn from Italian Renaissance paintings and frescoes in museums and churches in Florence, Italy.
  • Hands of the Saints
    Hands of the Saints detail
  • Hands of the Saints
    Hands of the Saints detail
  • Eyes of the Madonna
    Eyes of the Madonna Accordion folded abaca HMPaper, gesso, graphite, sumi stained wooden box. One eye drawn from each of 19 Italian Renaissance paintings in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. open 53 X 3 X 5 in.
  • Eyes of the Madonna
    Eyes of the Madonna detail
  • Eyes of the Madonna
    Eyes of the Madonna detail
  • Eyes of the Madonna
    Eyes of the Madonna detail
  • Night to Day to Night
  • Night to Day to Night
  • Night to Day to Night
  • Night to Day to Night
  • Time
  • Time
  • Time
  • Carrying the World
  • Carrying the World
  • Carrying the World
  • Night Flying
  • Night Flying
  • Dark to Light
  • Dark to Light
  • Dark to Light
  • Above the Eye
  • Above the Eye
  • Above the Eye
  • Gestation, Embodiment, Transfiguration
  • Gestation, Embodiment, Transfiguration
  • nothing niente nada
  • nothing niente nada
  • nothing niente nada
  • Desert Paint Box
  • Desert Paint Box
  • This Too Shall Pass
  • This Too Shall Pass
  • This Too Shall Pass
  • Within
  • Within
  • Waterfall
  • Waterfall
  • Aftermath
  • Aftermath
  • Aftermath
  • Aftermath
  • Aftermath
  • Wind Through the Pages
  • Wind Through the Pages
  • Boat Book
  • Hands of the Saints
  • Hands of the Saints
  • Hands of the Saints
  • Hands of the Saints
  • Hands of the Saints
  • Eyes of the Madonna
  • Eyes of the Madonna
  • Eyes of the Madonna
  • Eyes of the Madonna

Contained Within

Book are containers of concepts, of knowledge and experience, of human imagination. In the hands of an artist, a book explores an integrated connection between idea, structure, and visual movement.  I regard my sculptural artist books to be intimate containers of an idea meant to be experienced in a progression of time.  In my artwork, figurative elements, including eyes and hands, and landscape elements such as branches, roots and new growth,  are timeless metaphors that can be “read”  allegorically in many ways:  a “language” of personal symbols distilled from years of sketchbooks and used to evoke emotive ideas as visual poetry.