For over seventeen years I have transformed used books into sculptures through a wide range of artistic approaches. Working with the nature of the books that I find, I'm interested in delving into the internal landscapes of books to create new narratives.
Giving new life to the old, I have high-fired books in kilns with no clay intervention to create "Fossilized" Book Remnants. I have soaked, dried and screwed books together into tree-like forms for my Volumes Series 2001, and I've immersed books in inks and re-scrambled the books' components to create book sculptures that tell a new story.
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Anthologia 2007
Transformed literary Asian texts.
Vascellum 2012
Transformed graphic design books with encyclopedic covers.
Flutter 2007
Devotion series
Nous Detail 2014
Manipulated philosophy book. Made with ink and graphite.
Lorem Ipsum III
A reworking of the book "The Ten Bamboo Studio" Chinese masterpiece woodcuts.
Crescere 2013
Manipulated book components, encyclopedias made with inks.
Made In China Series 2012 - Present
Made In China Detail 2012
Ode To Anselm 2013
Manipulated book components.
Made In China Series 2012
Lorem Ipsum II 2010
Manipulated Asian literary texts with hand-stitched surface elements and splashed sumi-e ink.
Endoskeleton 2000
Fired book
Unfurled 2007
Manipulated book components.
Bookmark Slice 2001
Soaked, dried, scraped, reformulated book components.
Cube 2001
Soaked, dried, scraped, manipulated book components.
Lorem Ipsum III 2010-2012
Summer reading series.
Made In China Series 2012
Book Of R's 2001
Manipulated book components.
Artist Holding Nous 2014
Transformed philosophy book.