A Look at The Work

Book Objects

These three-dimensional objects are based on book and box forms. I use traditional bookbinding materials and methods to support words and imagery.

Compass Book - North This piece speaks to the northern compass point. It is thoroughly white and tightly contained. The images on the side panels are devised from ice, white linen, and sheep’s wool. The ring of white pages both asks to be touched and forbids contact because of its purity. Binder’s board, paper, cloth, glass, hardware, stones, and digital illustrations Includes custom acrylic display case & base $3200 plus shipping
From One Place to Another The arch of pages contains landscape images and poetry of migration and settlement. The images on the side panels illustrate homesteads and maps. Binder’s board, paper, cloth, glass, hardware, stones, and digital illustrations private collection

Hanging Pieces

Using similar materials and methods, I have translated the book object form to work that can be hung. These pieces contain digital imagery, writing, objects, and book materials.

Star charts, shimmering beads, rocks, an imagined telescope, and a hanging crescent are among the furnishings and the imagined mind of The Stargazer’s House. The hanging box is 13″h x 13″w and 2″ deep. Non-reflective glass is installed.

Binder’s board, paper, glass, beads, hardware, digital images.

$3,200 plus packing and shipping

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New Work on Metal

Each of these wall pieces consists of a 12″ x 12″ metal plate on which I have printed a digital composite. I generate a single image in Photoshop which combines photographs, maps, drawings, and ephemera. Once the image is printed on the prepared steel plate I bolt it to a 24″ x 24″ birch backboard which is painted black. The plate floats 1/4″ from the backboard, and the backboard hangs away from the wall by about an inch.

 

 

Imagining This Place
steel plate 12″x12″ bolted to 24′ x24″ painted Baltic birch
$1,700 plus packing and shipping

The elements of this digital composite are a photograph
taken at Antietam in late autumn, a battlefield map,
and a few images of rock walls from other places.

 

 

 

 

Many Perfect Places
steel plate 12″x12″ bolted to 24′ x24″ painted Baltic birch
$1,700 plus packing and shipping

Virginia and Pennsylvania barns, fields, and skies
are digitally layered and then printed in one pass
on a steel plate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Absolutely Red
steel plate 12″x12″ bolted to 24′ x24″ painted Baltic birch
$1,700 plus packing and shipping

This digital composite is based on a red maple standing
at the end of Andy Goldsworthy’s wall at Storm King Sculpture Park.
Included are maps, other rock & cloud photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Message
steel plate 12″x12″ bolted to 24′ x24″ painted Baltic birch
$1,700 plus packing and shipping

A photograph of rocks at Newport, RI and some
layers of rust on an old door formed the base
for this digital composite that was then printed
on a steel plate.

 

 

 

 

Meadow Season at Bangs Lake
steel plate 12″x12″ bolted to 24′ x24″ painted Baltic birch
$1,700 plus packing and shipping

I combined a dawn photograph of Bangs Lake in Wauconda, IL with a stone wall I saw somewhere.
The texture of the clouds somewhere in Michigan is produced by using a layer of one of my pastels.

 

 

 

 

 

Olsons’ Place
steel plate 12″x12″ bolted to 24′ x24″ painted Baltic birch

$1,700 plus packing and shipping

The Olson’s acreage in Iowa is both rustic and beautifully designed with a beauty only artists could achieve.
My photograph of this green expanse was combined with other elements and a quote from a circuit preacher’s journal written in 1864.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following images are printed on steel and will be bolted to 25×24 Baltic birch:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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