new show

I alter... I rectify...
Thursday, May 5th, 7-10 pm
Bad Dog Gallery
808 E Garden St
DeKalb, IL 60115

Advanced Fibers exhibition featuring the work of:

Mary Baker
Jenna Goeringer
Mary Hintzen
Liz Z. Howell
Erin Paulson
Katherine Wolf

Mary Hintzen will be giving a live performance at 9 pm.

I'm working tirelessly towards this deadline! Well, maybe not tirelessly; I'm already pretty exhausted. But I will not concede!

I was screaming and no one could hear....

At long last I have some in process photos of the artist book I have been working on for the past month. It is based on a sound wave of my voice saying the words "I was screaming and no one could hear". The structure is the folding structure that I learned from Melissa Jay Craig, and the paper is handmade kozo sheets made with Eastern sheet formation. It is all hand-embroidered; as you can see I still have a lot more to go.


Ultimately the book will be housed in a handmade drop-spine box, also containing a hidden arduino lilypad which will allow for the viewer's interaction to reveal part of the title.

This is the mock-up; you can see that the book can open further.



This is the book in its current state.

Eva - one more time.

"I have learned anything is possible. I know that. That vision or concept will come through total risk, freedom, discipline. I will do it.

...It's not the new, it is what is yet not known, thought, seen, touched but really what is not, and that is."

~Eva Hesse

Eva

"Sometimes I feel there is something wrong with me. I don't have that kind of precise mind or I just don't feel that way. I feel very very strongly in the way that I feel, but I don't stand on a kind of system. Maybe mine is another kind of system... [My works are] much closer to soul or introspection, to inner feelings. They are not for architecture or sun, water or for the trees, and they have nothing to do with color or nature or making a nice sculpture garden. They are indoor things."

~Eva Hesse

Eva

"If I can forever lose panic I know I am then capable of being a great artist, great person. That terror stands so in my way. It is a haunting paralyzing experience, one of which I stand in dread of occurring, and when it happens it is even worse than what I anticipated."

~Eva Hesse

I can tell you so much more in 25 seconds than I ever could before.

Currently installed at the Glass Gallery in the Holmes Student Center, Northern Illinois University.

seen at the Joan Flasch Artist's Books collection

Julie Chen, Radio Silence

A book is a build-ing, an imaginative space with a physical presence that must be traveled through gradually, accumulatively, and no two journeys are quite the same. A self-conscious assemblage of raw materials selected for their authenticity, durability, palpability, affinity. Both time-bound and eternal, a product of its moment and a permanent impression in the world as a whole and those who live inside a home.

- Arch Scripps College Press, 2010

Amazingly, books can deepen empathy; foster gentleness, humility; inspire justice, kindness; lessen man's natural orneriness, provide quiet restoration of scattered thoughts, unleash vicarious wandering, excite young-again zeal.

Robert Owen Robertz, Chicago Hand Bookbinders, 1999