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
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.
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.
Two pairs of two unit votive slips, both with a red group mark (Hakkakuren) at the top and an advertisement for Sennyoko on the top right-hand side. The upper quadrant of each part contains fan frames with scenery. Both slips include the name Utashige. On the left slip, the group mark reads fifty-three stations (Gojusan-tsugi) and the fan is decorated with red maple flowers and pink cherry blossoms and depicts the scenery of Odawara with a castle at the foot of the mountains. Three slips are under the fan: the pink one reads Odawara, the yellow one reads famous (meibutsu) finely chopped squid (ika tataki), and the green one reads Sansa(za)ishi. The bottom quadrant on the left contains a depiction of a package of medicine called uiro and a small barrel. The right slip reads Tokaido on the group mark. Shigitatsusawa reads in the middle of the fan frame with two snipes flying overhead, decorated with camellias and chrysanthemums. The three slips under the fan read Oiso, o-mon udon noodle (undon), and Kugiyasu, respectively from the right. The bottom quadrant contains the noodles served in a plate and a square container.