Migration
Artist's Book
maps, tracing paper, ink
waxed cotton thread, handmade flaxseed paper
3.5" x 3.5" (closed)
edition of 18
2008
This book is printed on pages from a road atlas that I used to guide me from Iowa City, IA to Reno, NV–and back again–on a yearly migration between the dates of August 2005 and August 2007. The lighter map pages contain pieces from the states that I passed through on my journey: Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. These pages have been printed on with a light yellow ink using furniture in the press bed. The backsides of the maps are covered with black ink using a brayer and the route that I took is marked in the pages using a sewing machine without thread. Latin names–printed with metal type–and silhouettes of bird species that make yearly migrations through these regions are layered over the maps. Tracing paper is printed with patterns of their flight paths and pencil lines of my routes.
Each book is different as I cut up the maps after printing on them.The book is covered using green flaxseed paper. Each book contains a centerfold with an overview of my driving route hand-drawn over an outline map of the states I traveled through, printed from a callograph that I made. The books are bound using a chain stitch.
Cultivate, Migrate, Wallow
Letterpress Prints
Oilboard, wood type, ink
12" x 12"
edition of 20
2008
These prints were made using wood type on the Vandercook press. Cultivate was made by laying down a solid layer of ink on linoleum before printing the text layers. Migrate was made by first printing the text layers and then printing a solid layer of semi-transparent ink on a linoleum block. Wallow simply uses text.
This is a Wallow
Artist's Book
Rives Lightweight paper, ink
waxed cotton thread, handmade flaxseed paper
5" x 4.25"
edition of 30
2007
This book is hand letterpressed and printed on Rives Lightweight paper that was torn down by hand and untrimmed (it has a rough, deckled edge). This book is all about wallowing. It contains text defining the term wallow and unexpected synonyms. The text is printed using photopolymer plates created from hand-stamped rubber lettering. It is pressed deeply into the paper creating a debossed image (a wallow of sorts) using brown semi-translucent ink. An un-inked plate of a buffalo silhouette is printed at the end of the book and after the title page. The book is covered in brown flaxseed paper handmade by Cave Paper in Minneapolis and hand-bound with waxed cotton thread using a modified long stitch.
Daydreams
Artist's Book
drawing paper, xerox
3.5" x 5.5" (closed)
3.5" x 63" (open)
2007
This book uses an accordion fold and a simple line drawing that connects all of the pages to illustrate the path of a daydream. The structure has a tab that holds it closed, connecting the line in a never-ending loop.
