Artist’s Books & Constructions

Artist’s books, Japanese-style book holders, decorated boxes, chlorophyll print folders, broadsides.
Face to Face : Image Gallery
Drag, swipe, or click navigation arrows to view the next image.Post-bound cloth covers, 20.5 x 15 x .75 inches. 13 pages, including: title page, 11 pages, each with Walt Whitman selection in letterpress, with accompanying chlorophyll print. The edition is limited to 3 numbered and signed copies, each of which includes unique chlorophyll prints.
In this Chemistry Distill’d : Image Gallery
Drag, swipe, or click navigation arrows to view the next image.Japanese-style folder, 20.75 x 15 x 2 inches, contains Walt Whitman’s memorial sentence from his Memoranda During the War and 27 broadsides with chlorophyll prints, plant specimens from Civil War battlefields, photographs, and maps.
This Compost (Edition of 1) : Image Gallery
Drag, swipe, or click navigation arrows to view the next image.Handmade artist’s book, 9.25 x 12.5 x .5 inches, cloth bound with Walt Whitman’s poem “This Compost” handwritten with applied chlorophyll prints and plant specimens, including leaves and grass from Civil War battlefield sites.
This Compost (Edition of 10) : Image Gallery
Drag, swipe, or click navigation arrows to view the next image.Handmade artist’s book, 9.25 x 12.5 x .5 inches, cloth bound with Walt Whitman’s poem “This Compost” in Bodoni typeface and high-resolution scans of chlorophyll prints and plant specimens, including leaves and grass from Civil War battlefield sites.
Vesuvius at Home : Image Gallery
Drag, swipe, or click navigation arrows to view the next image.Japanese-style folder, 9.75 x 7.5 x 2 inches, holds Emily Dickinson chlorophyll print cast in resin; frame is decorated with photographs of the nineteenth-century eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and antique store scavenged items evoking dominant images in Dickinson’s poems.
More Constructions : Image Gallery
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<em>When Lilacs</em>, 7 x 7 x 3.25 inches. Wooden box wrapped in book cloth and marbled paper, with cast lilac blossoms and chlorophyll prints of Lincoln and Whitman. Paper band with hand written passage from “When Lilacs Lasts in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”
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<em>Amulet</em>, artist’s folder with poem, daguerreotype, and leafprint in resin, 13.5 x 11.75 x 1.5 inches.
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<em>Necklace with Daguerreotype</em>, artist’s folder with poem and leafprint in resin, 15 x 12.5 x 1.5 inches.
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The Amulet broadside, unframed, measures 18 x 9 inches.