Accordion fold, printed on one side to form ten pages. To the sheet are attached eleven leaves with the remaining text, also a folded leaf of plates in pocket behind the text. Linoleum cut by Ruth E. Fine. Edition of 150.
"Sumo Geisha Sashimi" and "Floating Bridge of Dreams" make up The Japan Project.
Inkjet prints on Asuka kozo papers, bound using traditional Japanese stab binding
No. 6 of 10
“Most of the photographs for this project were taken while on a trip to Japan in 2011. Sumo Geisha Sashimi consists of two sequences -- on each verso page a single photograph of a sumo match is repeated over and over through all the pages while zooming in on a solitary detail. In a complementary manner, a sequence of photographs taken during a period of about 20 minutes is presented on the recto pages. The intention was to take advantage of the book’s verso-recto form and create a correspondence among the images across the gutter and through the pages that would not have been possible if each sequence was presented alone.”
“A visual poem, Floating Bridge of Dreams is a presentation of images arranged in such a way as to provide associations and enhance their meaning as the pages are turned with an ineluctable drive toward the end...The different weight, drape, and texture of the papers enhance the haptic quality of the viewing experience.”
Inkjet prints on green bar computer paper, stab binding through pin feed holes, pages scored near spine before sewing to improve opening.
No. 15 of 100
“Quotes from interviews with software engineers exploring how they became interested in working with computers and what they still find compelling about software, hardware and the act of programming.”
Accordion fold. Photographs from Library of Congress; Oregon Historical Society; Smithsonian; and Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
No. 41 of 125
Depicts women's struggle for the vote through text, photographs, and quilt blocks. Text inspired by an article on women's suffrage by Minna Morse in The Smithsonian 1993.
“This book is a small collection of stories taken from the 1916 The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright. Having been in print for almost 100 years -- the most recent printing taking place in 1992 -- The Real Mother Goose has influenced the lives of children over many generations. This book explores the evolution of language and image under contemporary connotations by obstructing and omitting portions of the original stories. The end goal of this remixed and redacted edition is to create a slightly different narrative calling on the linguistics difference created in the 100 year time span. No. 143 of 150.
Series of three books housed together in a balsa wood case
No.30 of 300
Created for the "An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street" project to commemorate the 2007 car bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, which was the center of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. Gift the artist.
"The images in this book are authentic Chinese hand colored paper cuts...the font is Seven Swordsmen, the text is printed by giclee, the outside paper is a Japanese print, the inside paper is unknown. Page hinges are stained tyvek.
Made by graduate students of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design with instructor Sarah McDermott, advisor Kerry McAleer-Keeler,
Letterpress, screen print, linoleum relief, Sintra plate carving. Bound in an accordion with a removable spine and sewn inserts.
Edition of 30
Kerry McAleer-Keeler: “An Exquisite Future was designed and produced by the students in fall 2014 under the guidance of instructor Sarah McDermott. In the book, the group explores the implications of a future with a reduced population of honeybees. A vital pollinator of many types of food plants for humans and animals, honeybees are in danger of disappearing because of colony collapse disorder. The artists used this phenomenon as a starting point for contemplating the future. Each artist responded to the preceding vision, building on what came before and using humor while considering potential difficulties.”
No. 111 of 150
"This book was set in 14 point Spectrum, 30 point Perpetua display and printed on mould-made Frankfurt laid paper, each book was hand bound by Don Rash."
The Leaf and the Stone -- nameless
Text in German and Japanese
“I have seen landscape, where fallen leaves will cover everything. The stone of roads will become colder and harder, wintry. Branches are busy dropping leaves, and will bury any warmth very quietly. Roads are covered with a myriad of stones, which are rough and annoying. The landscape seems to be protected and hiding something. So I wanted to present that something by saving and using leaves and stones. I made the book to hold the story, by putting stone and leaf on paper. Actual stones and leaves are stored in small boxes, like coffins.”
Pen & Ink, colored pencil, found and altered text, digital inkjet print on Rives BFK and Arches Cover. Books are housed in petri dishes.
“The suite of three books condenses and represents specific species encountered by Charles Darwin while aboard the HMS Beagle and during his travels and exploration of the Galapagos Islands.”
Altered book and mixed media: relief prints, pen & ink, found text, acrylic paint, petri dishes.
“Darwin at Sea is part of a larger body of work that comments on Charles Darwin’s travels aboard the HMS Beagle and his theories of evolution.”
400 pages. Mould-made Johannot paper. Laser engraved edges. Bound in embossed leather boards with coptic and Ethiopian binding techniques.
Edition of 20
"In this book Crucial Perimeter-1, I explore the dichotomy between what's inside a book and what's outside. The book has no text or images on its folios. When the book is closed, the viewer can see the content on three edges of the book, but depending on how the book is opened some of the content on the edges diffuses and becomes illegible, converting into traces of texture."
Embossings on heavy paper, issued in a portfolio containing all text, with slipcase
"Printed at Circle Press on J. Green RWS hand-made paper in a signed limited edition of seventy five copies and on Khadi pure rag-made paper in an unlimited numbered edition".
Watercolor on found and altered pages from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, housed in a petri dish.
“#42 is part of a larger installation of 52 cells. Originally prompted by Charles DArwin’s 200th birthday, the installation began in 2009 with 25 petri dishes filled with small compositions made by myself and gallery visitors. The cells grew to include 52 petri dish compositions that include variations on specimens and book forms, each its own sample of or musing on the natural or theorized world.”
“I like to make some books that are widely affordable, say for the cost of a dinner and a glass of vine. Often I make a smaller version of a larger work. This is the case with this editioned version of Essay, Bowl. Bowls serve us as powerful metaphor. They may be empty or filled. They hold and sometimes spill. They signal nourishment, fellowship. My book explores this theme in imagery and text. It is a brief essay with a philosophical slant. Among other angles, my essay examines a bowl’s imaginative associates (books, houses, boats, hearts) and retells a Jewish creation myth from sixteenth century Palestine.”
Letterpress printed, paper wraps, silk screen, hand painted
Edition of 22
“These familiar stories were retold and illustrated with pen and ink, then cleaned up in Illustrator. Photopolymer plates were combined with handset Pencraft, Packard, & Hadriano, then letterpress printed and hand colored on Arches Text Wove. Five brief renditions of tales from greek mythology featuring beasts: Actaeon & Artemis; Typhon, Aphrodite, Eros, & two fish; Arachne & Athena; Medusa & Athena; Stymphalia & Man-eating Birds.
"Our ornamented version of the font Ambicase Fatface was collaboratively produced through the creative processes of hand sketching, digitally illustrating, laser cutting plexiglass, and mounting the letterforms to type-high wood blocks. Ambicase Fatface includes each letter as a combination of its traditional upper and lower case. We adorned this font to create a unique collection of type which was overprinted on colorful make-ready backgrounds using a Vandercook press in the Winter of 2012 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio."
Gift of the instructor, Erin Beckloff
"The students of ART 450 created this alphabet book of flora and fauna using the wood type at Miami University's Curmudgeon Press. Through hand sketching and carving, this piece was collaboratively made. This hand bound book was printed in the Spring of 2013 on a Vandercook Press.”
Gift of the instructor, Erin Beckloff
Gouache illustrations, long stitch hard cover binding and drop spine box
No. 2 of 20
Illustrated at Bloodroot Press in gouache, printed by Alan Hillesheim at Digger Pine Press.
28 folios. Laser-cut handmade flax paper. Three hole pamphlet binding in an accordion binding. Linen thread, handmade paper covers.
Edition of 40
"This book displays the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet; each letter is laser-cut on a folio. The accordion binding allows the viewer to explore and interact with the letters."
