ZONE OF ELONGATION
2004
mixed media on panel
24" x 18"

ECHO BOOK (for ZONE OF ELONGATION)
2004
mixed media book art
6" x 4" (closed)
30" x 6" (open)

END TO END
2004
mixed media on panel
16" X 20"

ECHO to END TO END
2004
Artist book
4.25" x 5" (closed)

RAYMOND CROSSING
2004
mixed media on panel
16" x 20"

ECHO to RAYMOND CROSSING
2004
mixed media
5" x 4.5" x 1.5"

ARTIST STATEMENT

As both a book artist and painter, I'm interested in ways the two media can interconnect to create an experience like the one I get when I'm reading a really good book. I love to get lost
in the story.

Though there is little or no text in this collection of artist books and paintings, an implied narrative joins each painting and "echo" book or box, as well as the series as a whole.

Usually the work starts on paper, with drawings and holes punched into paper. Then I make the painting. When you view the painting from up close as you pick up and examine the "echo" book or box displayed below, your physical relationship to the painting changes. I becomes intimate, like the relationship between a reader and a book. The painting, reframed as a
spread-out page from the book, invites you deeper in the story.