Wooden box with hinged front panel, decorated with collage of logarithmic table, mathematics text and col. ill. Includes drawing by Robert Jean Ray. Signed by the artists: "WELCH 2005" and "R, 2005".
Images were painted directly on guidebook pages, then offset printed and accordian bound on sides by hand. Issued in envelope, with small photograph of Paris mounted on front.
One-of-a-kind mixed media flap book, composed of paper ephemera, acrylic, colored pencil, veneer, and wood, created by Julie Mader-Meersman "Contrary to common perceptions about the physical pain and fear of natural childbirth, 'Oxytocin good' was created to memorialize the labor and delivery experience of the artist and share the view that a natural birth event can be physically and psychologically calm and pleasant. The book specifically celebrates oxytocin, the naturally produced feel-good hormone that spurs labor and human bonding emotions. The book is miniature in format to reference the physically tiny origins of life and includes a container area that opens and closes, suggestive of an opening pelvis. Further, ephemeral materials--such as female clothing patterns, germination diagrams, and rent receipts--as well as painterly imagery are used to focus thoughts and feelings about the alignment of physical, emotional and psychological events leading up to and beyond the birth moment"--Artist's statement from 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Or., website
22 pages. Ed. of 25 numbered and signed copies. Images of the author's parents, William and Frances Salic Cecil, are printed on rectos with folding overlay showing William Cecil in isolation; text on facing pages. Bound in gold-colored jacquard fabric with leather spine. Title stamped in blind on the spine.
Leaves are boards with images glued to each side. "Collages of etchings, color laser prints, and artist's papers attached to 8 ply museum boards. The green spine is fish leather from Iceland"--Artist's website.
Altered book portraying various aspects of the body in collage, drawing, photography and mixed media. Unique artist's book, signed by the artist on p. [3] of cover.
16 leaves. Publication information from 23 Sandy Gallery website: Photography, drawings and collages with text (some text on panels and plastic strips); boards covered in black cloth, sewn together with red string in accordion-fold format.
