Handprinted block prints on library checkout cards, gouache, mulberry paper, brads, type. Bound in found vintage cover. Each book in the edition varies with the discarded library cards used. Slipcased in a manila folder. Orange overdue book card in pocket, numbered and initialed by the artist. Jacket is from a copy of: The world of the viruses / Stewart M. Brooks. Arist Statement: Drawings of people reading made during my daily commute are translated into block prints and hand-printed onto discarded and collected checkout cards. The commuters engaged in their own private world intersect with book titles and signatures of past readers. The office materials used to construct each book imply tasks workers are bound for. The nostalgia of the old cards suggest a history of the changing methods of reading.
Letterpress pop-up book on Rives Heavyweight. Accordian-folded leaf , threaded through the portfolio forms a "staircase" when opened, showing a different 12-step slogan imprinted on each "riser". Case bound with flax and moriki paper. String, wooden dowel, and glass beads act as closure.