Current Projects

I'm trying to spend some of my summer time in the studio experimenting with type and looking at language as a visual thing and make images that look like writing but can't be read. Also working on the beginnings of a collaboration with Justin Staller, which will explore this line between the readable and unreadable.

Series

Series

like a light on the water

a window of water

a wind in the water

I am of two forms

forever and ever

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

:: detail ::

 :: detail ::

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 ::

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 ::

Little Markings on Trees

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

Citadels

Citadels

The fabric of the sky 

and early fall 

Indescribable color 

burning in the chest