Friday, May 30, 2014

forever and ever

:: Marianne Dages, forever and ever, eleven color indirectly printed letterpress on paper, 2014 :: 

:: detail ::

 :: detail ::

Monday, May 26, 2014

Paper Book Intensive : Part Two

Part two of my time at PBI...

I took a Relief Printing class with Ryan O'Malley, where we learned to carve MDF boards, and a hand papermaking class with Ann Marie Kennedy. The theme of that class was "Paper and Place" and we experimented with fibers found around the area and adding inclusions to the paper.

 :: relief print on japanese paper ::


 :: handmade abaca paper with thread, newsprint, and deer fur ::

 :: handmade hemp paper with thread and elk bone ::

  :: handmade hemp paper with thread and elk bone ::

:: handmade flax paper with brazilwood and walnut dye ::

Friday, May 23, 2014

Paper Book Intensive: Part One

I just got back from the Paper Book Intensive, a two-week series of workshops in book arts, printmaking, and papermaking. It was amazing. Here are a few images of the books I made in one of the workshops, Leather Embossing with Bonnie Stahlecker.

 :: two books debossed with plastic cordage I brought back from Iceland ::

 :: front cover of book with symbols ::

  :: back cover of book with symbols ::

:: spine with tacket binding ::


:: close up of back cover ::

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Little Markings on Trees

I am in Michigan for two-weeks as a student in the Paper Book Intensive. It's really beautiful.







Sunday, May 4, 2014

Citadels






Citadels

The fabric of the sky 
and early fall 
Indescribable color 
burning in the chest