Alison & Jen Book 2
These images are from the second of a series of collaborative collage books made by Alison Corrie and I. I made the book by hand (accordion format), and then we took turns adding to it- collage, paint, drawing, whatever- building on each other’s work.
Alison & Jen Book 1
These images are from a collaborative collage book made by Alison Corrie and I. Alison made the book by hand, and then we took turns adding to it- collage, paint, drawing, whatever- building on each other’s work.
Xray
This book is from my 1998 semester in Rome. One day the “Sketchbook” class I was taking met at the professor’s studio. There was a huge trunk of materials left there by the previous occupant of the studio, and she told us we could take whatever we wanted. I found a book with clear plastic [...]
The Lost Ship
This book is from 1999 and started out as a hardcover book about sailing ships. I ended up rebinding it after its original binding fell apart. Selected pages here:
Silver
This was a tiny book that started out as a promotional booklet for a Roman clothing store. The etchings were added much later.
Roma
From 1998, semester in Rome. This can only loosely be described as a book since I never figured out a good way to bind the series of loose pages and ended up storing them in a box. I like that the order is not fixed. Here are some selected pages:
Nuovo
This is another book I made while studying in Rome. It started out as an art history textbook. Here are a few pages:
Lungotevere
This book was created during the semester I studied in Rome (Spring 1998). I found the book sitting on a wall next to the Tiber river, being soaked by the rain. That was the semester that I first became really interested in creating books, and I thought it was an amazing coincidence that I happened [...]
