Book Arts

This is a selection of artist’s books and books as objects.

They have been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Wichita Falls Museum of Art in Texas, to the Jung Center in Houston, Texas, the Beaney Museum in Canterburry, UK and Grafik i Väst in Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • PRESCRIPTIONS II: The antidote for despair (detail). Accordion artist’s book. Materials: Korean paper (Hanji), silk, antidepressant strips, calligraphy, ink. Size: 26 x 18 x 7 cm (10 x 7 x 2.8 in.), 2021-2022

PRESCRIPTIONS II: The antidote for despair, 2021-2022 is an accordion style artist’s book exploring mental health and the culture of overmedication.
Empty spaces in antidepressant tablets are filled with thoughts on Despair from Consolations by David Whyte. It is also part of a series of objects and installations using empty antidepressant strips.

  • HOME, at ‘Prints, Books & Solitary Things’ Solo Exhibition, Grafik i Väst Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden 2021
  • HOME, foldable book, India ink and stitches on altered bible pages, 150 x 200 cm, 2020

HOME, 2020 is a foldable artist’s book/installation that resonates with the global narratives of woman, earth, pandemic and loss of home. Materials include hemp, thread, India ink on altered Spanish Bible pages. The words woman/mujer, earth/tierra, hunger/hambre, plague/pestilencia, mortality/mortandad, and verses of ruin and devastation on earth/asolados has been left unredacted. The act of altering the bible suggests dichotomies of sacred and profane, East and West, lightness and weight, creating and erasing.  It is also a metaphor for ephemerality, transmutation and purification, while the mindful process is an antidote for uncertainty and a constant sense of dislocation.

  • PRESCRIPTIONS (A.K.A. NEVER OPEN IN THE WINTER BLUES), Accordion artist’s book, 154 antidepressant pills, paper, silk, 10.2 x 7 x 2.8 in. (26 x 18 x 7 cm), 2018
  • WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PAIN! Artist’s book, chewing tobacco, calligraphy, Korean paper, diam. x ht..: 2.5 x 98 in. (6.3 x 2.4 cm), scroll’s lenght : 130 in. (330 cm), 2016
  • PRESCRIPTIONS (No Mind), series of 18 Artist’s Books, calligraphy, Nepalese paper, medicine strips, 2017
  • NO MIND III, Artist’s Book, handmade ink calligraphy on Nepalese paper mounted on antique sewing spool, 2014 (Part of University of Kent-Special Collections and Archives, UK)
  • At the Beaney Museum, Canterburry, UK, for Prescriptions, 2016
  • Prescriptions catalogue, The Beaney Museum, UK 2016
  • Artist’s books, Year Book, Uk, 2018-2019
  • Artist’s books, Year Book, Uk, 2018-2019
  • WEDDING SERIES: 1819-1998, page 1 of Artist’s book in wood box, 1819’s paper from Swedish Royal Announcements, watercolor, ink, zirconia ring, 10 x 8 x 1 in., 2017. Part of The Digital Public Library of America.
  • DON’T RETOUCH ANYTHING! Artist’s book, altered book, 1819’s Swedish Royal Announcements, contact prints, thread, 10 x 8 x 1 in., 2017. Part of The Digital Public Library of America.
  • DON’T RETOUCH ANYTHING, Artist’s book, mixed media (1819’s paper from Sweden’s Royal Announcement/contact prints), 2017

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