Books & Boxes
At a certain point in my artmaking, I wanted to share my work in a more intimate way.
I began to make smaller work that invited the viewer to move in more closely. My next step was to take these small pieces and put them into hardbound books, offering an even more immediate way to experience the work. The physical act of holding the book, turning the pages to see the art on piece after another, is a more interactive and sensory experience. And the act of envisioning, designing and making a book by hand to hold the art is a new opportunity to be creative and to build something in the world.
I then stated making clamshell portfolio boxes to hold loose prints, giving people an opportunity to actually hold the artwork in their hands and to order them in different ways. Another new experience.
When I start a new art project now, I try to anticipate what form it will take in the world - framed pieces on a wall, as part of a hardbound book, part of a portfolio in a box, as a 3D object or some other new vehicle I haven’t thought of yet!