Two signatures are stitched together and glued to two large chunks of un-milled wood including rough edges and tree bark. Wood covers are hinged with a metal cabinet hinge. Short story about a trip to Paradise, on the McKenzie River in Oregon where old growth trees were being cut is handwritten in pencil with watercolor, collage and found natural materials glued to pages.
Screen printed images on thin fibrous paper; Two pages fold down from main section of book; Includes nylon pouch containing four appliques, Signed by both artists
Leaves are bound with wire to a white wooden dowel to form a flag;Includes red acetate cover;Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course, 1989, Signed and dated by the artist
Book consists of a Marlboro cigarette box containing 20 cigarettes, each with one bullet-tipped end and one filter-tipped end. The cigarettes are arranged with 19 having the bullet-tipped ends pointing up, and 1 having the filter-tipped end pointing up., Submitted to fulfill requirement of the University of Oregon, Dept. of Fine and Applied Arts, Artists' Books course
Consists of 12 printed paper cards, 9 are 8 x 6 cm. rectangles, 2 are slightly smaller triangle shaped, and one is smaller curved shaped. Each card is printed from Staedtler's Master, carved into oriental paper, hand-lettered onto Nideggen and grommeted end to end to form a snake-like shape. Colored string is also glued to each card. They are bound in sharkskin over board on the back side. On the front side, hand lettering on the edges of each card tells why snakes are not nice. The cards can be folded down to 6 x 8 x 5 cm and put into the burgandy colored cloth bag (16 x 10 cm.) they were supplied in. Title from sharkskin side of the piece, on the card representing the snake's head. Laser-cutting by Julie Chen.
10 Leaves. "Loose fish shaped pages, painted on one side, including a flounder with a human head, a mermaid wedding, me underwater surrounded by fish and more tall tales. Housed in a creel shaped silk and faux leather lipped clamshell box, decorated with a fishing lure" --Artist's statement from publisher's website.
25 cards + 1 folded sheet. Consists of fortune-telling cards which are two-color linocuts, printed in black and red on the French Paper Mill's Packing Carton. Accompanied by a single folded instruction sheet, offset printed on red. Enclosed in a box with a card collaged to the front.
Each page of this book is made of heavy card stock, gold on one side, and letterpress printed on the other. Some pages have additional irregularly shaped circular or oval cut outs stitched to the surfaces. All thirty-six 4 x 6 inch pages are stitched together in three rows of 13 to create a large rectangle when the book is fully unfolded. When closed the rows are folded lengthwise first then folded accordion style page by page to create a 4 x 6 inch 36-page deep book which is housed in a clamshell case. Ordinary black sewing thread is used in a back stitch to create an organic pattern over all of the pages when the book is opened, and these lines of embroidery create the connective stitches between pages. At one end of the book two pieces of thread extend beyond the pages' ends and both threads have loops at their ends so that the book can be hung, one-sided from T-pins on the wall, or two-sidded from cup hooks on the celing. Issued in a lipped clam shell box with a letterpress printed and stitched image on the cover. There is no text in this book, no title, colophon or signiture. In the title, Hannah Arendt refers to the German-American philosopher Johanna , Title, author statement, and imprint information from White Lotus Gallery website